Dear WRTC2006 Brothers:
One month has passed, full of intense and good memories from
WRTC2006!
The Organizers of the WRTC2006 will never have sufficient and
proper words to express our recognition and gratitude to all of you
for the fantastic support we received from the entire Ham Radio
community.
WRTC, being an amateur event, is totally dependent on volunteer
work donated by our Ham Radio family. We knew that from the
beginning, but honestly, we never thought that we would get such
support and help from so many friends around the world.
MUITO OBRIGADO!
We share our pride with all those
friends whom transformed this dream into a reality with the
following major achievements:
1) The use of totally open processes to
develop the rules and selection process.
2) The promotion of
global participation in the WRTC event – all Continents were present
– North America, Central America, South America, Africa, Europe,
Asia and Oceania.
3) 38 Entities gave us the honor of their
participation
| Argentina |
Aruba |
Austria |
Brazil |
Bulgary |
| Canada |
Chile |
China |
Croatia |
Cyprus |
| Denmark |
Estonia |
France |
Finland |
Germany |
| Hawaii |
Hungary |
Italy |
Japan |
Latvia |
| Lithuania |
Madeira Is. |
Mexico |
Poland |
Panama |
| European Russia |
Asiatic Russian |
Romania |
Serbia-Montenegro |
Slovenia |
| S. Africa |
Sweden |
Tadjikistan |
Thailand |
U.K. |
| Ukraine |
Uruguay |
USA |
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The Czech Republic team faced unfortunate problems with their
VARIG flight and did not succeed in attending. We apologize for
that.
4) The Judging Committee developed a new random draw
for referees allowing WRTC2006 to insure different nationalities for
referees and competitors. Random recording of contest audio was also
provided.
5) Due the distance from Brazil to most
contester populations, WRTC2006 provided a 2-element beam for 40
meters and an ACOM 1010 linear amplifier for all teams.
6) In
a common effort, WRTC2006 and the YASME Foundation made it possible
to offer four positions to Young Teams.
7) With support from 4L5A, our friend
Al, a special YL Team was created.
8) Using eight PY contest
stations located in Southern Brazil, we created a new
sub-competition in WRTC2006 for Multi-National Multi-Operator Teams.
Integration of foreigners and Brazilians was achieved, putting
together 16 foreigners with approximately 25 locals.
9) With the main objective to promote both CW and SSB, WRTC2006
created separate incentive prizes for CW and SSB QSO
totals.
10) In order to motivate the teams to submit the most
accurate log, WRTC2006 offered a special award and plaque for the
most accurate log in the 20 top scores.
11) Several prizes
were offered to stations that worked the WRTC2006 teams.
12) With the objective to publicly
recognize the important role of the volunteer work we decided to
nominate SM0CXU as the epitome of the Volunteer Work
Champion.
13) Having our Headquarters in Florianopolis at the Hotel Costao
do Santinho, we tried to mix competition with pleasure and the
enjoyment of Nature.
So again we deeply thank the following groups of entities and
friends:
- WRTC Sanctioning Committee
- WRTCs previous organizers
- LABRE
- Araucaria Dx Group
- ANATEL
- Ministry of Culture
- Navy & Army
- Customs Authorities
- City Authorities of Florianopolis
- Celesc (Utility Company)
- Hired Companies
- Sponsors – Private Companies, Equipment donors, Hams, and DX
and Contest Clubs.
- WRTC2006 Committees: Honorary Board, Steering, Fundraising,
Judging, Log Checking, Scoreboard, Technical, Logistics.
- Competitors
- Referees
- Judges
- MN MS competitors
- Hosts
- Visitors
The organizers, together with this group of people, made it
possible to offer you an event at the same level of the previous
WRTCs.
We are perfectly aware that despite such effort, everything can
always be better, and we apologize for the unintentional mistakes
and errors that occurred. One of the major challenges was to put
together 47 similar stations with equal antennas, towers, and
linears. Unfortunately some of the sites where not as perfect as we
wished.
In two specific cases we were not able to solve all the problems
in due time and the WRTC2006 organizers apologize for it. The
performance of teams PW5T (UA9AM / RZ3AA) and PT5T (PY2YU/PY1NX) was
severely affected by unexpected technical problems that were our
responsibility. We are sure that both teams could have a much better
result under normal circumstances.
The organizers of WRTC 2006 are committed to offer the same
support to the next WRTC as we received from the previous WRTC
organizers and we are totally sure that all together we can
gradually build up a event as close as possible to our common
dream.
God bless you all and OBRIGADO
Atilano de Oms
WRTC2006 Steering Committee.