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.
The WRTC 2026 Organising Committee have become aware of a number of discrepancies contained within log files from competing stations at this year’s event. Consultation with the Judging Committee has confirmed that these findings are of particular importance as they may impact on the finishing positions of the teams.
The table below lists the final scores by QSOs per band and mode. Statistics for error rate and unique rate are also provided along with the percentage of contacts on each mode.
Kevin Thomas, W1DED, wrote a detailed article describing the WRTC 2026 experience.
“For three years, I followed the organizers building WRTC 2026 and the competitors trying to earn one of just fifty places in it. This weekend, in the English countryside, those two journeys met.”
Building on documentation prepared for referees at previous WRTCs, today we are pleased to publish our Referee Handbook on the WRTC 2026 website: https://www.wrtc2026.org/referee_handbook/
This document is intended to provide a clear and detailed guide to referee activities throughout the WRTC week. Our aim is to help ensure a consistent and hence fair experience for all teams, whether the referee is an experienced WRTC participant or attending for the first time. Competitors should also read it.
Hello from the 2026 WRTC Judging Committee. The Judging Committee’s function is to assure that the order of finish represents entrants’ performances, where all credited contacts are those that are accurate, rule-compliant, and fairly made. Established software is used to cross check and score the logs. If all contacts of all entrants are made ethically and fairly, the computer-adjudicated order-of-finish would be all that is needed.
The WRTC 2026 Organising Committee would like to clarify the topic of national identification for the WRTC 2026 event. The 2023 event held in Italy recognised the changing situation around the world with regard to national identification and implemented a balanced approach given a number of factors.
The competition rules used for WRTC 2026 are provided at the link below. The rules were also accompanied by a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document that responded to competitor questions and provided guidance on how the rules should be interpreted.
The United Kingdom organizing committee has announced the qualification and selection criteria for WRTC 2026.
There will be up to 50 teams. This includes the 40 qualifiers from regions around the world plus the defending champions, 4 youth teams, 2 sponsored teams, and 1 wild card team selected by the organizer.
Everyone interested in qualifying for WRTC 2026 must do so by operating in a variety of contests between October 2023 and March 2025. See the full rules at
The WRTC Sanctioning Committee (SC) is pleased to announce that the organization of the World Radiosport Team Championship 2026 was granted to the United Kingdom Host Committee.
The UK’s application was well prepared. Knowing their determination, we expect another outstanding meeting and competition among the world’s best contesters in the East Anglia region north of London.
The new Organizing Committee will publish all information and the qualifying process with the support of the WRTC Sanctioning Committee.
