?? The Silver Medal went to N6MJ/KL9A. Fifth place was K5ZD/W2SC. The highest placing LY was 7th. Sure, there was an element of "home field advantage" to Eastern Europeans who were more familiar with local propagation conditions. But experience, preparation and skill were far more important to final score than local knowledge. The organizers made logs available from local stations operating in recent IARU contests and diligent contestants could easily get more logs and personal advice. I was there. It was by far the most level playing field ever offered in radio contesting history. Perfect? Of course not. But I doubt that it was any worse than playing a major professional sport in another team's home stadium.
/Rick N6XI On 7/19/10, Joe Subich, W4TV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It may get favorable reviews for "level playing field" in terms of > location/antenna advantages. However, if one sorts the results by > QSOs or "net QSOs" (QSOs minus busted Qs), the results are very > different. The "winners" were all local (UA3, ES, LY) teams who > made fewer QSOs but took advantage of their knowledge of local > propagation to find a significantly greater number of multipliers. > > -- Rick Tavan N6XI Truckee, CA ______________________________________________________________ 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
