WRTC 1996 Teams Announced

April 3, 1996 SF

WRTC-96 PRESS RELEASE #7

Redwood City, CA
April 3, 1996

WRTC-96 ANNOUNCES SELECTION OF TEAM MEMBERS

WRTC-96, Inc. announced today selection of the 104 team members who will compete in the World Radiosport Team Championship competition scheduled for July 13 and 14, 1996. The WRTC competitors will enter the IARU HF World Championship contest as 52 two-person multi-operator, single-transmitter entries. All 52 teams will be located near San Francisco Bay on flat terrain in relatively close physical proximity so as to minimize propagation differences, and all will run 100 watts output to nearly identical antenna systems. By eliminating many of the station and propagation variables normally associated with radio contesting, the WRTC strives to present a meaningful head to head competition in which the winners can rightfully claim to be “the best of the best.”

The WRTC competition will begin at 12:00 UTC on Saturday, July 13 and run until 06:00 UTC on Sunday, July 14. The WRTC teams will operate both cw and ssb on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters and may be contacted once on each band-mode (i.e., 8 contacts are possible with each WRTC station). The WRTC stations will be easy to identify because they will be using distinctive “1×1” callsigns specially approved by the Federal Communications Commission for the competition. Those callsigns will be W6A through W6Z and K6A through K6Z. In addition to the regular IARU HF Championship awards, there will be a whole family of separate achievement awards available to those who work the requisite numbers of WRTC stations.

Twenty-two teams operated in the first WRTC competition which was held in Seattle, WA in 1990. Eleven competitors in this year’s event, including Defending Champions K1AR and K1DG, are veterans of WRTC-90. Their callsigns are noted with asterisks in the competitors’ listing:

 1. Defending Champs  K1AR*  + K1DG*
 2. Team Argentina    LU6ETB + LW9EUJ
 3. Team Australia    VK5GN  + VK2AYD
 4. Team Belgium      ON6TT  + ON4WW
 5. Team Brazil       PY5CC  + PY0FF
 6. Team Bulgaria     LZ1SA  + LZ2PO*
 7. Team Canada #1    VE3EJ  + VE3IY
 8. Team Canada #2    VE7NTT + VE7CC*
 9. Team Czech Rep.   OK1CF  + OK2PAY
10. Team Finland      OH2IW  + OH1JT
11. Team France       F6FGZ  + F5MUX
12. Team Germany #1   DK3GI  + DL1IAO
13. Team Germany #2   DL5XX* + DL1VJ
14. Team Hungary      HA0DU  + HA0MM*
15. Team Italy #1     IN3QBR + IT9TQH
16. Team Italy #2     IT9BLB + IT9VDQ
17. Team Japan #1     JE1JKL*+ JH7WKQ
18. Team Japan #2     JH4NMT + JE3MAS
19. Team Japan #3     JH4RHF + JA8RWU
20. Team Japan #4     JH7PKU + JO1BMV
21. Team Lithuania    LY2IJ  + LY1DS
22. Team Poland #1    SP6AZT + SP9FKQ
23. Team Poland #2    SP9IJU + SP9HWN
24. Team Russia #1    RV1AW  + RW1AC
25. Team Russia #2    UA3DPX + RZ9UA
26. Team Slovenia     S59A   + S56A
27. Team Spain #1     EA4KR  + EA1AK
28. Team Spain #2     EA7TL  + EA9KB
29. Team Sweden       SM3DMP + SM3CER
30. Team UK           G3OZF  + GI0NWG
31. Team Ukraine      UT4UZ  + UT1IA*
32. Team USA #1       K1KI   + K3UA
33. Team USA #2       K3LR   + WA8YVR
34. Team USA #3       K4BAI  + KM9P
35. Team USA #4       K6LL   + N2IC
36. Team USA #5       K8CC   + K5GO
37. Team USA #6       KF3P   + KR2J
38. Team USA #7       KR0Y*  + K1TO
39. Team USA #8       N6TV   + K7SS
40. Team USA #9       W2GD   + W0UA
41. Team USA #10      WX3N   + K5ZD
42. Team Yugoslavia   YU1RL* + YT1AD
43. Wildcard #1       5B4ADA + S53R
44. Wildcard #2       9A9A   + 9A3GW
45. Wildcard #3       DJ6QT* + DJ2YA
46. Wildcard #4       I2VXJ  + I4UFH
47. Wildcard #5       K4UEE  + N6IG
48. Wildcard #6       NP4Z   + WC4E
49. Wildcard #7       RU3AA  + RV3AJ
50. Wildcard #8       UN2L   + UN4L
51. Wildcard #9       WN4KKN + N6TR
52. Wildcard #10      ZS6EZ  + ZS6NW

For additional information about WRTC-96, contact Rusty Epps, W6OAT at 651 Handley Trail, Redwood City, CA 94062, USA or via e-mail at epps@netcom.com.