[Elecraft] The Big Three...

[Paul Gacek]

Merv

Now we entering the arena of stats can tell you whatever you want them to tell you!

In fairness only one of the top teams was a US team (I think) and 3 of the top 15 were US. Maybe radio choice for the Europeans is more to do with ICOM et al possibly having a more direct sales and support presence in EU versus Elecraft which is via local distributors and possibly requiring the gear to return to Cal for repair. Just a guess ....

I think the WRTC leader role for the Boston/NE one had more US teams placing. I’m sure a story exists around home team advantage.

I can only reiterate that anyone who participates in WRTC has to be pretty awesome and I wish I had 1% of their skills!!

Stats are fun.

Paul Gacek

> On Mar 29, 2020, at 8:50 AM, K9FD <merv.k9fd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> SO lets see,  we are saying that 50 percent used Elecraft,  and out of the top 3 no one did,
> and most who used Elecraft were in the bottom.
> So was it the radio or the operator?
> If you look at it from one point of view,  loosers used Elecraft..
> 
> Merv K9FD,   and I own 3 - k3 radios so not biased.
> 
> 
>> Wasn't my subject line. But I'll see your four and raise it to five: Elecraft, Flex, Icom, Kenwood and Yaesu.
>> 
>> Wes  N7WS
>> 
>>> On 3/29/2020 6:55 AM, Michael Walker wrote:
>>> I find you mention the big 3, but it is really the big 4.
>>> 
>>> Mike va3mw
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:28 AM Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org <mailto:wes_n7ws at triconet.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     FWIW. I took a cursory look at the top 10 to see what they were using.
>>> 
>>>     You have to get to 5th place to find a pair of K3s.  Sixth and 7th places use
>>>     one K3 and something else for the second radio.
>>> 
>>>     So four out of 20 radios were K3s.
>>> 
>>>     Also of interest 6 out of 10 used WinTest with 4 using N1MM+.
>>> 
>>>     Wes  N7WS
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>     On 3/29/2020 2:50 AM, Paul Gacek via Elecraft wrote:
>>>     > If you follow the link you can see what radios the 50+ WRTC 2018
>>>     participant teams used.
>>>     >
>>>     > Lots of K3.
>>>     >
>>>     > http://wrtc2018.de/competition/finalscores.php
>>>     >
>>>     > Paul
>>>     > W6PNG/M0SNA
>>>     > www.nomadic.blog
>>> 
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