2006 Florianópolis, Brazil

24 Hours In Brazil - documentary

Welcome to the 2006 World Radio Team Championship (WRTC) held in beautiful coastal Brazil. World-class radiosport talent compete in this most demanding of ham radio contests that brings operators together from around the world.

The video was produced and videotaped by ham radio video pioneer Dave Bell W6AQ, whom captures the spirit, energy and excitement that the event offers hams from all ages and walks of life.

This is the  "24 Hours In Brazil" video by  W6AQ.


Basic Answers for WRTC Questions

In order to clarify the rules and selection criteria developed by the WRTC 2006 Committee, we are circulating this report to all the friends who have an interest in WRTC 2006.
Philosophy of WRTC 2006
The WRTC 2006 Steering Committee approved the primary aspects of the philosophy of our WRTC 2006 in December 2004.

WRTC 2006 - Default Station Description

  • Table and chairs for two Operator positions
  • Chair for the Referee
  • Mains Power 220V AC/ 60Hz
  • One Linear ACOM 1010
  • Guyed Tower 15m with 3m Steel-pipe at the top.
  • Rotator for the two directional antennas
  • 20-10m Log Periodic antenna, ACOM LS86; 8 elements (longest 11m), boom 6.5m
  • 40m 2 element (ext'n coils) beam, boom 6.7m, longest element 13m
  • Wire antenna for 80m
  • PL259 connectors on all 3 coaxial cables.
  • 3-way manual antenna switch

Referees Selection Criteria WRTC 2006

We are going to nominate in due time a Judging Committee composed by 6 members. This Committee will be in charge to train and coordinate the Referees activities, solve any problem or doubt related with rules, logs, and scores and to maintain accuracy on the Scoreboard. Inserting the Cabrillo files into the main computer server is also its responsibility, as well as the log checking activity.

WRTC 2006 REFEREES

WRTC 2006 – Selection Criteria, Clarifications

This document is not changing any of the rules but will clarify the application process for WRTC 2006. The specific set-up of 14 different Regions to get a world wide participation in this contest may cause some confusion to fill the application and this is an explanation how this is done.

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Example of an application - K5ZD Region East of USA

Example of an application = K5ZD Region East of USA.
We thank Randy for authorizing us to use his application as an example in our WRTC 2006 Web Page.
This is not his official application because still missing the official results from CQWW CW 2004.

WRTC 2006 – SELECTION CRITERIA

WRTC 2006 – SELECTION CRITERIA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

WRTC 2006 Program (Schedule)

July 5, Wednesday 2006

RELEASE 032/2006 - REFEREES LIST

RELEASE 032/2006 - REFEREES LIST
19.1.2006

REFEREES LIST

We can now announce the list of Referees. These have been selected by Committee vote, taking into account all-round contesting-skills (both SSB and CW), contesting-career, previous WRTC-experience and application-date.

This list may change if any selected Referees become Competitors, either as Team-Captains, or Team-Mates, or Multi-Single/Multi-National participants.
Therefore there is also a list of Back-Up Referees who will be asked to replace Drop-Outs.

RELEASE 031/2006 - YASME SUPPORT YOUNG TEAMS

RELEASE 031/2006 - YASME FOUNDATION SUPPORT WRTC2006 YOUNG TEAMS
13.1.2006

YASME FOUNDATION SUPPORT WRTC2006 YOUNG TEAMS

The WRTC 2006 is proud to announce a very important support received from the YASME Foundation to help and encourage the young contesters to participate in the next WRTC 2006.

This is the text of the announcement made by YASME Foundation:

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