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With high praise for Russian organizers of the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championship, a number of operators had equally favorable reviews for the Field Day setup that was used, as a way to ensure an even playing field for all 48 teams from around the world.
"This was the first WRTC with a truly level playing field," said Dave Lawley G4BUO to his WRTC colleagues.
"I hope that upcoming WRTCs will adopt this format," Ben Och DL6FBL told radio-sport.net.
"The organizers and the volunteer support teams, who built up the sites, did a very great job," Och added.
"It was best WRTC ever," said WRTC veteran Ranko Boca 4O3A.
"When I say best WRTC ever, I mean on perfect equalization of stations. FD style was very hard for me ( very hot and wet inside the tent ), but we all could live with it and really enjoyed good pile ups and propagations we had."
"The Russian WRTC-2010 will for a long time most likely remain the standard for many future championships!" said Mats Strandberg SM6LRR.
Those with the biggest smiles were most certainly the Russian organizers, led by Harry Booklan RA3AUU, who weathered the usual last minute troubles of a major undertaking, and were thrilled as the final ceremonies took place.
"You could really feel the emotion when the final results were read by K1ZZ and the whole crowd erupted in frantic cheers of Russ EEE ah! Russ EEE ah!!! Russ EEE ah!!!!! over and over for several minutes," said Jeff Briggs K1ZM on the National Contest Journal web site.
Briggs also joined in the strong praise for the work of all the organizers and volunteers who set up the contest antennas and tents in fields south of Moscow.
"It was a very level playing field, our team had no line noise and we had a blast before, during and after the contest," he said.
The winners were the Russian duo of Vladimir Askenov RW1AC and Alexey Mikhailov RA1AIP, who won a narrow victory over Team Estonia, consisting of Tonno Vahk ES5TV and Toivo Hallikivi ES2RR.
"It was awesome," Vahk told radio-sport.net. "The result is more than we ever hoped for even though we put all we had into it, practiced and analyzed and designed for a long time."
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A number of the teams requested more detailed information about log mistakes and log checks, with some asking for those to be made public immediately.
"I know you are waiting for all logs and UBNs to analyze but we can publish them only after IARU contest logs deadline, so please be patient," Booklan RA3AUU wrote on the WRTC reflector.
Booklan was very pleased with how the WRTC worked out, and especially with the impact in his own country for future contesting endeavors.
"I should say that this WRTC will have very big impact for growing Russian Contest community and I really believe you will see it quite soon," he told the WRTC reflector.
"You can't imagine what kind of reports we are getting from all over the country and especially from the guys responcible for educational process among young HAM guys. Thank you all for allowing our volunteers to listen for your contest operations. They learned a lot."
The US hosted the first two WRTC events in 1990 (Seattle) and 1996 (San Francisco).
The 2000 WRTC was in Slovenia, 2002 in Finland, and four years ago in 2006, it went to Brazil.
As for what the format should be, while there was a lot of support for how the Russians ran WRTC, RA3AUU said that decision should be up to those in charge of the event.
"Formats for WRTC can be different," Booklan told radio-sport.net. "What we did was a real Team competition. We hope the next WRTC ogranizers will offer real Team Competition as well."
There were 48 Teams each with two transceivers:
The winning five teams all used FT1000MP or Elecraft K3.
Logging Software:
The ten leading teams all used Win-Test or WriteLog.
