ARLA/CLUSTER: WRTC - Os "Jogos Olimpicos do Radioamadorismo" em 2018 serão na cidade de Jessen na Alemanha a 15 de Agosto

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

WRTC 2018 organizers met at Jessen

On August 15 the World Radiosport Team Championships (WRTC) 2018
Organizing Committee met for a workshop at Jessen in Saxony-Anhalt

At the beginning of the meeting Michael Jahn, the Mayor of Jessen, was
acquainted with the project. Michael Jahn expressed his pleasure about
the choice of Jessen as the host of the “Olympic Games of Amateur
Radio” and passed his thanks to the radio amateurs of the region for
their outstanding work.

Organizing the project was the main focus of the agenda. Treasurer,
Wolfhard Goldschmidt, DL9ZWG, reported a good start particularly due
to a great number of donations from German radio amateurs. Christian
Janssen, DL1MGB, the chairman of the Organizing Committee, presented
the tool selected for the project management and explained the project
schedule. To keep frictional losses at a minimum public relations work
was reorganized with the main responsibility currently in the hands of
Michael Hoeding, DL6MHW. In future Ben Buettner, DL6RAI, will look
after IT matters.

A further important topic for discussion concerned the 60 sites that
will be required for the actual WRTC contest in 2018. Supported by
radio amateurs from Saxony and Brandenburg, Andreas Winter, DK4WA, has
already mapped more than 80 sites that promise excellent conditions.
In this context environmental care was also addressed as this issue is
considered most important. In the Organizing Committee Andreas Winter
will take regional responsibility for all local activities in the
Jessen/Wittenberg area.

With regard to the detailed shaping of the rules of the competition
Uwe Koennecker, DL8OBF, has published an analysis and the results of
the discussion that he had initiated in the WRTC-2018 Mailing List. In
this discussion experienced WRTC-competitors of the past have expertly
discussed the pros and cons of MS- and M/2 operation. In the
discussions at Jessen further aspects especially from the view of the
organizers were supplemented. After this opinion-forming process Uwe
will prepare a draft of the rules for the actual WRTC-contest in the
course of the next weeks.

Finally it was suggested to hold the next general meeting of the WRTC
2018 e.V. after the RRDXA spring meeting that is traditionally
scheduled on the 2nd weekend in March at Waltrop.


About WRTC 2018

World Radiosport Team Championships (WRTC) are being held every four
years. They assemble more than 60 of the best 2-OP-teams from all over
the world for a competition. Quite different from other radiosport
contests, competitors in WRTCs operate with identical power and
antennas on level playing fields from the same geographical region
eliminating all variables except their own operational skill. Previous
WRTCs were held at Seattle/USA (1990), San Francisco/USA (1996),
Slovenia (2000), Finland (2002), Brazil (2006), Russia (2010), and New
England (2014).

Further relevant information can be found in the Web at
http://www.wrtc2018.de/

Source - WRTC Press Release
http://www.wrtc2018.de/index.php/en/presse-2/pressemitteilungen-2/92-wrtc-2018-organizers-met-at-jessen