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[CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Stations to use old DDR call sign block

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Stations to use old DDR call sign block
From: Brennan Price <brennanprice@verizon.net>
Reply-to: Brennan Price <brennanprice@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:50:19 +0000 (UTC)
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  So says regulator BNetzA via ARRL. Should be a boon for modern-era prefix 
hunters.

WRTC 2018 will Use Y2A – Y9Z Call Signs 
07/12/2018[UPDATED 2018-07-12 @ 1415 UTC] German telecommunications regulator 
Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) has announced that the 63 World Radiosport Team 
Championship 2018 (WRTC 2018) teams on the air this weekend for the 
international competition will use "club station" call signs from the Y2A – Y9A 
block on a one-time basis. It is not yet known if these call signs will be in 
the 1 x 1 format or some other. Available call signs for participating teams 
are to be announced during the WRTC 2018 opening ceremonies at around 1700 UTC 
on July 12. Just before the competition starts on Saturday at 1200 UTC, teams 
will chose one call sign out of the available block in a lottery.Y2 – Y9 call 
sign prefixes were inherited from the former East Germany regulatory regime and 
have not been used for nearly 30 years — since the reunification of East and 
West Germany. The regulator said radio amateurs in the participating teams may 
use the assigned club station call sign “if they hold a valid foreign Amateur 
Radio license according to CEPT recommendation T/R 61-01, an Amateur Radio 
license valid on a short-term basis in Germany, or a valid German Amateur Radio 
license.”This morning, WRTC 2018 participants and referees met for a briefing 
by organizers, during which competition organizers explained and clarified all 
rules and answered questions. “Competitors and referees asked for a lot of 
detail,” a WRTC 2018 announcement said. “especially as regards correct log 
keeping and rating of QSOs, such as what to do when the [other station] sends 
the wrong zone. The guidelines given at the meeting are a building block for 
fair competition, which must indeed be reflected during contest operation and 
not only through subsequent regulatory discussions.”A detailed briefing also 
was held for site referees, during which the function of the power-checking 
meter was described and the configuration of the score-collection computer 
explained.
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