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<h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">New WRTC Awards - WRTC 2018 Distance Challenge</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">World Radiosport Team Championship</strong><span> </span>takes place from July 14<br style="box-sizing:border-box">(12z) until July 15 (12z) in parallel to the IARU HF Championship.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">63 teams will be competing from identical sites south of Berlin.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">QSO partners can directly support the contestants with QSOs.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">In order to stimulate contacts with the WRTC stations, five awards have been created, which we will introduce here during the next weeks.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This award will go to the station which covers the greatest distance in the contacts made with the WRTC competitors during the contest.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">In order to ensure an exact ranking participants should put their own locator square into their log&#39;s Cabrillo header before sending it off to the WRTC log checkers.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.wrtc2018.de/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">http://www.wrtc2018.de/</a></p>

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