[SOC] Fw: [CQ-Contest] You can win a contest!

Sat May 14 00:10:50 EDT 2011

i did not know danny started WRTC. 

I was one of his first elmers, with a call of WN7ZVY, a couple of years
back from his KN7JCA. i met him through K7CW (KN7HTZ), as i worked with
paul's his father .

i really loved contesting wiht W7ZVY, my call was still being sent after
i got through throwing all the toggle swiches to get to
receive................

mike w7dra

W7DRA sounds vanity, but it was what i got when i came back from calif
(WB6GZE).

On Fri, 13 May 2011 16:13:00 -0700 (PDT) Art - W6KY <w6ky at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Not how WRTC works. All the stations are as identical 'as possible'. 
> Co-located
> as close as possible. Not Michigan and Maryland. Most judges from CQ 
> Contesting 
> Hall of Fame. Great sponsors. Logs must be turned in immediately. 
> As an example of operators over equipment. Two WRTC's ago the 
> winning team
> was using an IC-765. A radio from 1989.
> 
> WRTC is the pinnacle of contesting. Those who are into contesting 
> love it (or
> hate it for not being invited to a team).. Those not into contesting 
> probably 
> can't
> see the point. That's the same with all aspects of amateur radio. I 
> don't do
> SSB on 40 meters in the daytime, talk thru a repeater, send pictures 
> on 14230
> or bounce RF off the moon, but there are those who to them is, 
> amateur radio. 
> Good for them!
> 
> Long live WRTC. Started by Danny,K7SS, who should be our SOC 
> President
> except he won't join a club that will have him as a member.....  :)
> 
> 73, Art  W6KY
> www.w6ky.com
> 
> ................................................................
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Coslo <mjc5 at psu.edu>
> To: Second Class Operators' Club <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Fri, May 13, 2011 10:11:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Fw: [CQ-Contest] You can win a contest!
> 
> On May 13, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mike
> > 
> > 'Leveling the playng field' is something contesters have talked 
> and 
> > complained about for years.  But, the WRTC is about the closest 
> thing you 
> > can get to that.
> > 
> > Last year in Russia, all of the stations were set up FD style in 
> the same 
> > field with the same height towers and the same antennas, exactly.  
> Only 
> > variables were the radios the participants used.  They even had a 
> device to 
> > monitor output power that will give them away if they go to too 
> much power. 
> > It is as close to being 'level' as you will ever get.  Operator 
> skill is 
> > what it takes to win that one, not location.  73
> 
> Sure - sorta. I trust that emissions were measured and that the 
> towers were 
> placed over the exact same type of terrain? Having identical 
> equipment is a 
> start, but location is a surprisingly big factor.
> 
> Just for the sake of illustration, let's have a 20 meter contest. A 
> shootout 
> between two operators who are consensus "best American operators". 
> The goal is 
> to contact as many EU operators as possible. We'll use a 756 pro III 
> and 100 
> foot towers with a tribander on top of each. One will be installed 
> in the Upper 
> peninsula of Michigan, and the other in say Maryland. If the 
> stations were set 
> up identically and the RF emissions were set up exactly the same, is 
> the station 
> in Michigan going to be equal to the one in Maryland? The only 
> difference the 
> operator skill and the score differential proving who is the better 
> operator? 
> >From Michigan, working worldwide is probably still a tough 
> proposition, contest 
> wise.
> 
> I don't want to belabor the list with semi-serious stuff, but the 
> level playing 
> field is tilting at windmills.
> 
> - 73 de Mike N3LI -
> 
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