ARLA/CLUSTER: ETRC 2014; Resultados finais da versão para jovens do WRTC 2014

João Costa > CT1FBF ct1fbf gmail.com
Segunda-Feira, 4 de Agosto de 2014 - 13:00:46 WEST


 ERTC 2014 Final Results

The IARU Region 1 site has published the results of the European
Radiosport Team Championship, the youth version of WRTC 2014

ETRC 2014 (European Radiosport Team Championship), the youth version
of WRTC 2014, was held in Virrat, Finland one week after the Boston
WRTC event with 15 three-person youth teams seated in one room in
front of their computers and connected to the global Amateur Radio
simulator over the internet, all in Virtual Reality. Once again, the
latest technology was utilized in Amateur Radio for the benefit of
Amateur Radio’s future and by Amateur Radio operators themselves.

In total, ERTC 2014 activated hundreds of young people and licensed
radio amateurs in full harmony within the participating 44 countries.
ERTC 2014 was a huge success bringing youth and seasoned hams together
around the same fireworks in the spirit of international Amateur
Radio.

But Mother Nature added to the excitement as a thunderstorm knocked
off electricity in the area and power was restored only 5 minutes
prior to the start of the contest. It was a Le Mans type of hectic
start leaving many teams in the starting grid. The Head Judge, Hans,
PB2T, President of IARU Region 1, ruled the first 22 minutes out to
give a level playing field to those slow in booting their contest
machines and putting their racing helmets on.

When the dust had settled, the following three teams stood on the
podium with their medals:

GOLD MEDAL, CZECH REPUBLIC:  Sarka Vavrova, OK2SVA (21); Jindrich
Kostal, OK1NOR (24) and Jan “Honza” Dohnalek, OK1JD (20)

SILVER MEDAL, ITALY;: Nicola Tonci, IZ6TSA (20); Gabry Iuliani, IT9RGY
(26) and Orazio Intagliata, IT9DBF (25)

BRONZE MEDAL, ESTONIA: Keijo Kapp, ES1XQ (17); Tauri Helimets, ES5HTA
(29) and Keven Mekk, ES6AXS (18)

As Silver and Bronze teams were less than three multipliers apart, the
fact that the S/W platform (HamSphere 3.0) used in the contest logged
all QSOs into the system, gave the organizers full confidence in
verifying each station and their exchange. Only seven (7) multiplier
uniques were found in the database and they did not affect the final
rankings.

ERTC 2014 was part of a European wide youth gathering known as
Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) which is held every year in different
European Union countries under EU and International Amateur Radio
Union (IARU) sponsorship with the aim of bringing youth together in
the spirit of cultural exchange and learning from one another in all
segments of Amateur Radio, science and electronics. This year fifteen
EU countries were represented. ERTC also brought young people together
globally over the internet, using Amateur Radio simulation software on
a shared platform - all in the natural hangout of today’s youth.

See the full results at
http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article
&id=1321:ertc-2014-final-results&catid=73:youth-general&Itemid=219



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