[SEDXC] Fwd: ARLX011 K1TO and N5TJ repeat as WRTC winners

[Sandy Donahue]

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> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:15:20 EDT
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> SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX011
> ARLX011 K1TO and N5TJ repeat as WRTC winners
> 
> ZCZC AX11
> QST de W1AW  
> Special Bulletin 11  ARLX011
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington CT  July 10, 2000
> To all radio amateurs 
> 
> SB SPCL ARL ARLX011
> ARLX011 K1TO and N5TJ repeat as WRTC winners
> 
> World-champion contesters Dan Street, K1TO, and Jeff Steinman, N5TJ
> (ex-KR0Y), retained its title at the World Radiosport Team
> Championship 2000 competition in Bled, Slovenia. Street and Steinman
> topped the field of 53 WRTC-2000 two-operator teams from around the
> world in off- and on-the-air operating events designed to test their
> contesting skills. Using the call sign S584M, K1TO-N5TJ racked up
> 969 points.
> 
> The competition included the 24-hour on-air event, concurrent with
> the IARU HF World Championship Contest held over the weekend as well
> as off-air pileup tape competition held last week prior to the
> contest.
> 
> During the 24-hour IARU/WRTC event, K1TO and N5TJ managed to put
> 2234 contacts into the log--1277 of them on CW--and collected 364
> multipliers. Street and Steinman also topped the field of
> competitors at the last WRTC, held in 1996 in the San Francisco Bay
> area. Teams from the US took four of the top ten finishing slots in
> WRTC-2000.
> 
> Finishing in second place with 910 points was the Russian team of
> RA3AUU and RV1AW, operating as S587N. Coming in at number 3 with
> 870.34 points was the US wildcard team of Doug Grant, K1DG, and CQ
> magazine contest editor John Dorr, K1AR. Grant and Dorr operated as
> S582A.
> 
> Other US teams in the top 10 included the S519I team, Bob Shohet,
> KQ2M, and Daniel Handa, W7WA--at number 8, and the S531R combo of
> Jeff Briggs, K1ZM, and Andy Blank, N2NT--at number 10.
> 
> During this third WRTC, operators competed using modest stations
> running 100 W on CW and SSB on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters. All
> sites were equipped with three-element Yagis for 10, 15, and 20
> meters, and Windom antennas for 80 and 40 meters, both mounted just
> under 40 feet above ground.
> 
> Sponsoring WRTC-2000 was the Slovenia Contest Club. The ARRL's David
> Sumner, K1ZZ, served as chief referee.
> NNNN
> /EX


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