[Elecraft] The Big Three...

[donovanf at starpower.net]

This is by far not an unbiased survey. Teams that travel on airplanes to 
get to WRTC will be strongly biased toward light weight radios such as 
the K3. Operators who do not travel by a irplane will be biased towards 
radios with much better SSB performance. 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 

----- Original Message -----

From: "K9FD" <merv.k9fd at gmail.com> 
To: "Paul Gacek" <w6png at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 4:26:55 PM 
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] The Big Three... 

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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