WRTC-2000 Tour   Page in Red-White-Blue to honor Slovenia!

Images in strict cronological order

1001b.jpg (23707 bytes) Me and SM3CER in Fulda,
on our way down throu Germany
in our Audi contest car.





Photo: DL6FBL
1002b.jpg (22039 bytes) CER just loved my car!

When he got home he scrapped his
rice boiler and bought..... an Audi !
1005b.jpg (15551 bytes) Nice tower!


DK5.... ?
1008b.jpg (16691 bytes) Both me and CER were
hungry and broke!

Fortunately we found this
DOG BAR !
1011b.jpg (14501 bytes) Great QTH!

Perhaps this would be nice as a
club house for the Bavarian DX-Group !
1014b.jpg (19762 bytes) These are the alps that we were
supposed to cross!

Fortunately someone had been there
before us and dug a tunnel throu the
mountain to the Slovenian side.
1019b.jpg (21674 bytes) Austrian - Slovenian border.

"Check point Charlie"
1026b.jpg (18714 bytes) Who were the first people I met in
Slovenia ?

AI6V and W6OAT of course!
Carl and Rusty - Great meeting
You two again!
Carl in a real mental case!
He shipped his Firebird (or whatever)
to Europe just to try the Autobahn!
1023b.jpg (22919 bytes) Bled Ice Hockey arena.

A perfect spot for mingling and dining!
1025b.jpg (27511 bytes) K4VX, NS0Z and N6TV
1024b.jpg (25228 bytes) Lew, K4VX

Sign behind Lew sez:
You can borrow my bicycle for
two hundred bucks per hour!
1032b.jpg (23755 bytes) Tine, S50A addressing the crowd!
1035b.jpg (21654 bytes) N5TJ and K1AR

Jeff and John testing the Slovenian
cousine!

From the expression on John´s
face I wonder what he just  put his
teeth in?
1036b.jpg (18345 bytes) K5ZD, Randy
1038b.jpg (21510 bytes) K7BV and K1TO
Dave and Dan
1039b.jpg (22800 bytes) VK4EMM and JA8RWU


Akira , a good friend since many years!
1043b.jpg (17799 bytes) ZS6EZ
Chris - Extremely well known voice
from South Africa.
1045b.jpg (21895 bytes) The view from our balcony at the
Hotel Krim in Bled
1046b.jpg (22779 bytes) Bled is a beautilful little town!
1047b.jpg (22754 bytes) Downtown Bled
1049b.jpg (27007 bytes) SM3CER about to go /MM
1052b.jpg (20493 bytes) /MM
1058b.jpg (23015 bytes) OH1NOA, Timo

Getting ready for the opening ceremony.
Was awarded this sign so that he would
know where to go home to!
1059b.jpg (28013 bytes) Olympic atmosphere!
1066b.jpg (20087 bytes) W6OAT, Rusty



Yakety, Yakety, Yak !
1071b.jpg (26763 bytes) Mingling and  dining in the
ice hockey arena.
1072b.jpg (21853 bytes) Two is a crowd!
1074b.jpg (24558 bytes) WRTC rules sez:

If You cheat - You´re OUT!

N6KT is THE judge!
1075b.jpg (22519 bytes) Me and DL1IAO

The very secret callsign letter!
1078b.jpg (21712 bytes) Our hill top contest QTH
1081b.jpg (26109 bytes) Contest gasoline!
1082b.jpg (27435 bytes) S57MW and S57RA

Marco and Pavel

Our hosts!
1083b.jpg (30062 bytes) DL1IAO, S55SL and S55MBS

S55SL worked us in the contest too!
1084b.jpg (22853 bytes) S517W

TS-850 Multiplier station
TS-870 Running station

The German tool to success!
1086b.jpg (14391 bytes) Marvelous view over the Adriatic Sea
to the south from our QTH
1129b.jpg (19370 bytes) "German Juniors" struggeling hard!
1130b.jpg (18664 bytes) Stefan, DL1IAO
1131b.jpg (22147 bytes) Manfred, DL2MEH
1128b.jpg (40493 bytes) The ref.
1088b.jpg (21862 bytes) Great job, pal!
1090b.jpg (20022 bytes) SP9HWN, Woj.


Sunday evening mingling.
1091b.jpg (19300 bytes) K7LXC, Steve

One of the WRTC pioneers from
way back when....  

(1990 - Seattle - Goodwill Games)
1092b.jpg (25145 bytes) One weak moment I told Akira,
JA8RWU, that one of my secret
dreams was to meet some
beautiful japaneese women.

10 seconds later Akira had made my
dream come true!

Thanks Akira!
1093b.jpg (23781 bytes) Wonderful Bled!

This is outside the Festival Hall



Audis on display! What else??
1105b.jpg (22304 bytes) The church on Bled Lake Island
1106b.jpg (28751 bytes) The promenade around Bled Lake
1107b.jpg (19106 bytes) The Bledovian that went to Sweden!

Vasaloppet - The worlds toughest
ski race!
1108b.jpg (22631 bytes) More of Bled´s beauti
1109b.jpg (19673 bytes) And even more...
1115b.jpg (22448 bytes) The Winners!

N5TJ and K1TO

Do I hear a bell ringing!
1116b.jpg (35291 bytes) S50A, Tine getting nostalgic.
1117b.jpg (15971 bytes) Me and my favorite Germans!
1119b.jpg (16621 bytes) SM3CER and his "Ukraine" + host

UT5UGR, Jan-Eric, UU2JZ + S59KW.
1120b.jpg (22262 bytes) Winners again!
1122b.jpg (28076 bytes) Grand WRTC-2000 Finale with a
fantastic firework display from barge
on Bled Lake.

This lake is now inhabited by numerous
blind and deph seabirds with
heartfailure.
1127b.jpg (21215 bytes) We made a detour to the pasta country
on our way home.
Just had to meet Paolo, I2UIY, again!!

Linate Airport july 12

I hear talk about some heavy weight
title match
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