[CQ-Contest] WRTC 2000

[Paul Womble]

>From the ARRL letter:


WRTC 2000 SITE, SCHEDULE, TEAM ALLOCATIONS SET

The site, schedule, and team allocations have been announced for the
next World Radiosport Team Championship. The international Amateur
Radio competition will be held in the tourist city of Bled, Slovenia,
July 8-9, 2000, concurrent with the IARU HF World Championship
event. The 2000 event will be sponsored by The Slovenia Contest Club,
which sent a large group of contesters to the last world event, WRTC
96, in the San Francisco Bay area.  The top-scoring team from that
event--Jeff Steinman, N5TJ (ex-KR0Y) and Dan Street, K1TO--will defend
their title in next year's WRTC as one of two special teams.

WRTC 2000 Organizational Committee member Tine Brajnik, S50A, said 15
teams have been allocated to North America--12 US, 2 Canadian, and 1
wild-card.  Europe will field 25 teams, including five wild-card
teams, while Asia gets six, South America three, and Africa and
Oceania one each, both selected as wild cards by the WRTC
organizer. As WRTC 2000 organizer, the Slovenia Contest Club will
field a second special team for the event.

Branjik said the national team allocations were based upon the number
of contest logs that beat respective continent-average scores in
different categories. Wild-card teams will be picked from the list of
applicants, he said. He invited applications via e-mail to scc at bit.si
or via mail to Slovenia Contest Club, Saveljska 50, 1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia.

While the on-air competition will cover only July 8-9, the official
WRTC 2000 events schedule begins July 5 with the opening of the
contest office and a picnic for competitors and concludes with a
closing ceremony, dinner, and awards July 10. For more information,
visit the official WRTC 2000 site, http://wrtc2000.bit.si/center.htm


73
Paul AJ4Y
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