[Elecraft] The Big Three...

[K9FD]

I agree Paul,  and my comment was to play the stats in jest.

when the glass is half full you can see it from both sides,

I did that to stir the  Elecraft kool aide crew.

Having contested many many years in  my past life,  I dont own
3 - K3 radios because they are losers,  and nope I  am not in the
class of any one who qualifies for WRTC.  not even close,
and at 75 I am not progressing any longer,  I am on  the slipping
side of downhill.

73 Merv K9FD
> 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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