Merv, I am curious. If you think K3’s are “losers” then why are you on the Elecraft Reflector message board in the first place?
73 Charles W4PPP On Mar 29, 2020, at 12:26 PM, K9FD <[email protected]> wrote: 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>> Post: mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>> Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to [email protected] >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
