World Radiosport Team Championship Begins Next Week
from
The ARRL Letter / ARRL
on
June 30, 2000
Website:
http://www.arrl.org
Add a comment about this article!
WRTC-2000 COMPETITORS HEAD FOR SLOVENIA
The World Radiosport Team Championship 2000 countdown clock is ticking. More
than 100 competitors from around the world are making final preparations for
WRTC-2000, and many already are on their way to Slovenia to take part in the
event. WRTC-2000--akin to the Olympics in the sports world--gets under way next
week.
The international Amateur Radio competition will be held in Bled, Slovenia.
The on-the-air portion of the competition will be July 8-9, concurrent with the
IARU HF World Championship event. WRTC-2000 events begin July 5 with a welcoming
and organizational meeting and conclude July 11 with the awards ceremony.
"Few will return with a medal--all will return with memories of
excitement, camaraderie and passion that will be with them forever," says National
Contest Journal Editor Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, who's also a contestant
in WRTC-2000.
This third WRTC will test the mettle of world-class contest operators at
relatively modest stations running 100 W on CW and SSB on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10
meters. The WRTC-2000 Organizing Committee is providing all sites with
equivalent antennas--three-element triband Yagis for 10, 15, and 20 meters, and
a Windom antenna for 80 and 40 meters, both mounted approximately 12 meters
(just under 40 feet) above ground.
The top-scoring team from the last WRTC in 1996--Jeff Steinman, N5TJ
(ex-KR0Y) and Dan Street, K1TO--will defend its title in this year's WRTC as one
of two special teams. WRTC-96 was held in the San Francisco Bay area.
ARRL Executive Vice President David Sumner, K1ZZ, will be the Chief Referee
at WRTC-2000. The WRTC-2000 Organizing Committee President is Tine Brajnik,
S50A, of the sponsoring Slovenia Contest Club.
National Contest Journal will offer complete coverage of WRTC-2000.
Starting July 3, the new NCJ Web site http://www.ncjweb.com will
provide on-the-spot coverage. Daily reports and photos will be posted on the NCJ
WRTC special coverage pages.
For more information on WRTC-2000, visit http://wrtc2000.bit.si/
or contact the Organizing Committee at scc@bit.si.
There are no comments on this article:
Post One
|
