2002 Helsinki, Finland

WRTC 2002 was held in Helsinki, Finland. A major innovation in Finland was a near-real-time scoreboard publish on a web site 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 web site 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 each represented twenty-eight countries.

First place: Jeff Steinman N5TJ and Dan Street 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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