To support amateur self-training in radiocommunications including improving amateur operating skills, conducting technical investigations, and intercommunicating with other amateurs around the world, especially IARU member society headquarters stations, using the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands.
Dates: The second full weekend of July (July 9-10, 2022).
Contest Period: Begins 1200 UTC Saturday and runs through 1159 UTC Sunday. Both Single and Multioperator stations may operate the entire 24-hour period.
Contest rules are now maintained as a single downloadable document.
Click here for the complete IARU HF World Championship Rules (PDF)
For contest information contact contests@arrl.org or (860) 594-0232
WRTC History
Amateur radio is a unique passion of all ages, with the radio spectrum providing a playing field for technical innovation and global human communication in pursuit of giving 4 million amateur radio operators a chance to experience telecommunications as a way of life and a source of technological innovation, taking our wonderful world a step closer to better and more human communication – or just simply, connecting people.
The World Radiosport Team Championship – WRTC in short – represents a large gathering of the world’s best in radio traffic – as selected Regionally – coming from any country and all continents in the spirit of competition, using the same playing field and allowing pure skills to determine world champions in two-man team, 24-hour nonstop competition.
WRTC 2022 LIVE SCORE BORD
Team Leaders and Team Mates
TL | TM | Sponsored by | |||||
AF1 | EA8 | EA8RM | Juan Jesus | EA2W | Jon | ||
AF2 | 5T | 5T5PA | Johannes | KF5EYY | Ashraf | ||
AF3 | ZS | ZR2A | Ulrich | DL9EE | Holger | ||
AS1 | UA9 | R8CT | Oleg | UA4FER | Igor | ||
AS2 | UA9 | RM9I | Oleg | RU9I | Sergey | ||
AS3 | 4X | 4X6FR | Zvi | 4X1DX | Seth | ||
AS4 | BY | BA1RB | Bin | BA4TB | Disong | Bavarian Contest Club | |
AS5 | VR | VR2XAN | Alberto | IK2PFL | Luca | ||
AS6 | HS | E21EIC | Champ | E29TGW | Mew | ||
AS7 | JA | JA1BJI | Taro | JR2GRX | Hajime | ||
AS7 | JA | JH5GHM | Katsuhiro | WA1Z | Bob | ||
CA1 | KP4 | NP4Z | Felipe | N2NT | Andrew | ||
EU1 | ES | ES2RR | Toivo | ES5TV | Tõnno | ||
EU1 | LY | LY7Z | Andrius | LY9Y | Jurgis | ||
EU10 | I | IZ8JAI | Domenico | IZ8FWN | Pietro | ||
EU2 | GD | GD4XUM | Martin | G3NKC | Dave | ||
EU2 | GU | RL5D | Oleg | OR2F | Lyubomir | ||
EU3 | DL | DJ5MW | Manfred | DL1IAO | Stefan | ||
EU3 | DL | DL5AXX | Ulf | DL7FER | Felix | ||
EU3 | SP | SP7GIQ | Krzysztof | SP7IVO | Boguslaw | ||
EU4 | UA | R2AA | Evgenii | RN3QO | Sergey | ||
EU4 | UA | RA3CO | Dmitry | RL3FT | Yury | ||
EU5 | EA | EC2DX | Imanol | CT1ILT | Filipe | ||
EU6 | F | F8DBF | Sebastien | F1AKK | Olivier | ||
EU7 | 9A | 9A7DX | VEDRAN | 9A3LG | Zvonimir | ||
EU7 | I | IZ1LBG | Filippo | IK3QAR | Paolo | ||
EU7 | S5 | S53MM | Matija | S57K | Sandi | ||
EU8 | UA | UB7K | Andy | RW7K | Andy | ||
EU8 | UR | UR0MC | Roman | US2YW | Vyacheslav | ||
EU9 | E7 | E77DX | Emir | E70T | Vlado | ||
NA1 | K | K5ZD | Randy | W2SC | Tom | ||
NA1 | K | NN1C | Martin | KG5HVO | Bryant | N6XI Rick Tavan | |
NA10 | K | K3PA | Drew | N1UR | Ed | ||
NA2 | VE | VA2EW | Gilles | VA2WA | Victor | ||
NA3 | K | KD4D | Mark | KE3X | Ken | ||
NA3 | K | NN3W | Richard | N3QE | Tim | Tennessee Contest Group | |
NA4 | K | NE9U | Scott | K9CT | Craig | ||
NA4 | K | W9RE | Mike | N9NB | Ted | ||
NA5 | K | K4AB | Larry | K4BAI | John | ||
NA6 | K | K5GN | Dave | N4YDU | Nate | ||
NA7 | K | KU1CW | Alex | K2PO | Bill | ||
NA8 | VE | VE5MX | Einar (Todd) | VE3EJ | John | ||
NA9 | K | KI6RRN | Axel | N5ZO | Marko | Southern California Contest Club | |
OC1 | 9M6 | 9M6NA | Saty | K5WA | Bob | K5WA Bob Evans | |
OC2 | KH6 | KH6CJJ | Kent | AD6E | Alan | ||
OC3 | ZL | ZL3CW | Jacky | VK2IA | Bernd | Bavarian Contest Club | |
SA1 | P4 | W2GD | John | AA3B | Bud | Frankford Radio Club | |
SA2 | PY | PT7ZT | Carlos Alberto | PY1NX | Soni | ||
SA3 | CE | CE2LR | Mathias | CE3CT | Roberto | ||
SA4 | PY | PY2NY | Vitor | PC3T/PY2SEX | Alexandre |
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Antenna
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Review
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TYT MD-2017 Dual Band DMR and MFJ-849 Digital SWR Watt Meter BY K6UDA
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