2002 Helsinki, Finland
WRTC 2002 was held in Helsinki, Finland. A major innovation in Finland was a near-real-time scoreboard published on a website during the event. On-site referees at each WRTC competition station used cellular phones to send their station’s running contact totals and score to a central database each hour. The scores were published during the event on a website that listed only the call signs of the operators at each site, not the randomly assigned special-event call sign being used on the air.
Fifty-two teams of two operators represented twenty-eight countries.
First place: Jeff Steinman, N5TJ, and Dan Stree,t K1TO of the United States
Second place: Igor Booklan RA3AUU and Andrei Karpov RV1AW of Russia
Third place: Frank Grossmann DL2CC and Bernd Och DL6FBL of Germany
The original WRTC 2002 website can be viewed at this WRTC.info address http://wrtc.info/wrtc-sites/wrtc2002.org/. Thanks to OH1RX Jouko, OH1NOA Timo, and OH2BH Martti.
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Web site for the United Kingdom Host Committee is https://www.wrtc2026.org/
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