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Re: [CQ-Contest] Multiple Contest Callsigns

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Multiple Contest Callsigns
From: Geoffrey Way <wayg@cape-vision.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:14:51 -0500
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Hans wrote: "What's not to like about this idea?"

What's not to like about it is, WRTC will officially DISALLOW using any and ALL of your scores with respect to WRTC's ranking/scorekeeping for that event-- they will not count toward improving your WRTC ranking. You get ZERO, ZIP, NADA, ZILCH.

The sponsor/organizer still recognizes and counts your scores, it's just WRTC that will ignore them.

I've proposed to WRTC already that one ought to be able to ask in advance, ONLY ONCE, WITHOUT ANY OPTION TO CHANGE, to have a particular operation be the ONLY one allowed to count, so that one cannot "harvest" whatever result worked out best after the fact. After-the-fact score selection was how this rule came about originally I am told, as there were possible abuses in the past.

My proposition will not be an option for 2014, but they have offered to pass the idea on for the next WRTC.

So, as it stands now, one must make a choice between their personal aspirations, or their desire to strengthen the level of contesting activity as a whole. The way WRTC adjudicates their ranking at present, it's every man for himself, and I wish it were otherwise. There are 2 occasions where I have already set my aspirations aside. But I don't operate at that skill level (yet) where it really matters, anyway.

Another by-product is my WRTC ranking is now skewed from this, and I'll have to re-calculate what it could have been to actually see where I would rank if it were otherwise. I'll look forward to doing some long division by hand... ;)

-- KA1IOR

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