[K6BW] Great Job Dave(N2NL) and Craig(N6MJ)!!

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Sooo close!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steve Johnson 
To: Chuck ; k6bw at mailman.qth.net ; Bill Hillendahl ; David Mueller 
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:32 PM
Subject: [K6BW] Great Job Dave(N2NL) and Craig(N6MJ)!!


REVISED Jul 10, 2006 13:07 ET

WRTC-2006: Preliminary Results Put Canadian Team in
First Place 

Putative winners: (L-R) Jim Roberts, VE7ZO (ex-VE3IY),
John Sluymer, VE3EJ, and referee Junichi Tanaka JH4RHF
at the site and referee selection on Friday, July 7.
[Diane Ortiz, K2DO, Photo]
 

NEWINGTON, CT, Jul 10, 2006--Preliminary results on
the World Radiosport Team Championship 2006
(WRTC-2006) "Scoreboard" show the Canadian team of
John Sluymer, VE3EJ, and Jim Roberts, VE7ZO
(ex-VE3IY), topping the 46-team field with 2,593,940
points. The Scoreboard standings represent point
totals text-messaged hourly from each station site and
may not reflect the actual results of the competition.


WRTC-2006 officials are now analyzing competitors'
logs for the year's premier global contesting event,
held in conjunction with the IARU HF World
Championship. The WRTC-2006 organizing committee
collected logs via e-mail from IARU contest
participants to assist with log checking. Official
results are not expected to be announced until this
evening. 

Sluymer and Roberts competed as a team in WRTC-2002 in
Finland and placed sixth. At WRTC-2000 in Slovenia,
they came in 11th with Roberts as the team captain and
Sluymer as the second op. 

Holding the second position on the Scoreboard as the
event closed was the US-West team of Californians Dan
Craig, N6MJ, of Fullerton and Dave Mueller, N2NL, of
Novato with 2,508,732 points. The top two teams held
their respective positions during the final four hours
of the event, but in the hours before that, they
swapped the lead a couple of times. 

The Serbia-Montenegro team of Ranko Boca, YT6A, and
Djurica Maletin, YT6T, showed up in third place when
the smoke cleared, logging 2,326,750 points. The
preliminary Scoreboard numbers show YT6A and YT6T
scrambling from 11th to third place in the final hour
of the event. 

"Many of us watching the WRTC2006 scoreboard wondered
what happened when Ranko, YT6A, suddenly jumped from
11th place to third place at the last hour. It looked
like a superb final straight," said Jarmo Jaakola,
OH2BN, in a news release this morning from Brazil.
"Obviously such a jump is not possible near the finish
line, when score levels are quite stable, and the path
is established toward final positions." 

Jaakola says it's since been learned that YT6A set up
his team's logging software as if the pair were in
Montenegro -- calculating the team's points as though
operating from Europe, not Brazil. Boca reportedly
corrected his software configuration after the event
finished and submitted his team's claimed third-place
finish to the log-checking committee. 

"The scores will be out this evening Brazilian time
[UTC minus 3 hours], and it remains to be seen whether
Ranko will take back the medal and top-scoring
European team honors to the newly born Republic of
Montenegro," Jaakola said. 

Boca will serve as master of ceremonies for the 2006
Montenegro DX Festival starting July 20 to honor the
establishment of the new Republic of Montenegro. 

The national special invited team of Doug Grant, K1DG,
of New Hampshire, and Andy Blank, N2NT, of New Jersey,
were in fourth place on the Scoreboard when the event
ended at July 9 at 1200 UTC. Grant and Blank reported
in with 2,237,732 points. The pair was in third place
going into the final hour of the competition. 9A8A and
9A5K were shown in fourth place until the last hour,
when they dropped to sixth. 

Showing in fifth position on the Scoreboard was the
Ukrainian team of Yuri Onipko, UT4UZ, and Dimitry
Stashuk, UT5UGR. The national team from Ukraine logged
2,212,892 points, according to the preliminary
standings. 

The difference between the top team and the last team
was more than 1.9 million points. WRTC-2006 selected
47 teams, but only 46 competed because the Czech
Republic team of OK1FUA and OK2RZ was unable to get to
Brazil because of an airline service suspension. 

A great job for all who participated and thanks for
those who came from California.



 
   73 KI6ADA
  Steve Johnson

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