Turkish companies have not been alone in these ventures; foreign direct investors entered Turkey as early as
the 1950s, though with much smaller volumes than that invested in South East Asia and Eastern Europe. All the same, the Turkish corporate sector enjoyed the privilege of interacting with international companies, thus enabling it to climb the learning curve of globalisation quite smoothly. The second section of the report offers a lively narrative of this evolution, which demonstrates forcefully the readiness of Turkish companies and institutions to meet the challenge of EU membership.
Overall, the primary message of this report is that Turkey's institutions and dynamic private sector are well
prepared to start the negotiation process that will lead to EU membership and a higher level of welfare for both Turkey and the European Union.

Blent Eczacba

Chairman, ERT - Turkish Enlargement Business Council Chairman, Eczacba Group
FROM ASSOCIATE TOWARDS FULL MEMBERSHIP
A Mutual Commitment Evolving
TOWARDS THE MAASTRICHT CRITERIA
This section briefly reviews the steps that Turkey
has taken to transform its legal, legislative, institutional and economic environment since 1963, when it signed the Ankara Agreement. This agreement envisaged a process of gradual political and economic integration that would lead Turkey to full membership after a period of 22 years. In recent years, Turkey has taken major steps to restructure its economic, administrative, institutional and judicial environment with the longterm objective of meeting the challenge of global competition as a strong partner of the European Union. Economic and political turbulence has not discouraged Turkey, but rather reinforced its resolve. The obligations which Turkey has contracted with the European Union have served as fundamental benchmarks during difficult times. Turkey has responded to major economic crises with root and branch reform of its financial and regulatory institutions, thus demonstrating its reliability as a partner of the EU.
of Turkeys long-term economic program. Major structural reforms have been accomplished in various fields since 1999, when Turkey began to implement IMF-designed reform programs. These programs were accelerated in 2001, following two severe financial shocks that led to a 9.4% contraction of the economy and demonstrated forcefully the need for faster structural reform. In the early summer of 2001, Turkey undertook a series of measures to stabilise the macroeconomic environment and pave the way for economic recovery. Turkeys GDP grew 7.8% in 2002 and 5.6% in 2003, driven mainly by exports and the restocking of inventories. Strong growth is expected to continue in 2004.

TRADE POLICY: Customs Union guaranteed
the free movement of industrial and processed agricultural goods between Turkey and the EU through the elimination of customs duties and quantitative restrictions. However, between 1996 and 2000, the EU allowed Turkey to maintain protective tariffs on specific sensitive products, such as motor vehicles, footwear, leather products and furniture originating from EU countries.
enterprises with special rights, and commercial protection instruments. Recently, Turkey has: Strengthened the inspection powers of the Competition Authority.
partially accomplished. Work is in progress on outstanding issues concerning the import regime for alcoholic beverages. Trade barriers were also lowered by the establishment of an independently functioning Public Procurement Agency in April 2002, and the enactment of a new Public Procurement Law in line with UN standards in January 2003. Transferred regulatory power of alcoholic beverages from TEKEL to the Tobacco and Alcoholic Beverages Board and abolished TEKELs has monopoly status. Prepared a draft law on the establishment of a national authority to monitor state aid. Published a communiqu on anti-trust rules that offers block exemption of R&D agreements, with the aim of encouraging co-operation in this field. Published Guidelines on the Application of Over the period 1997-2002, the Competition Authority concluded 1,655 of the 2,006 anti-trust, merger and acquisition, exemption and negative clearance cases brought before it. To achieve the full alignment of Turkish competition law with EU legislation, authorities have been working on harmonising laws on state aid, state monopolies, public enterprises, the Block Exemption of Vertical Agreements. Guidelines address such issues as selective distribution, agreements between competitors, agreements involving intellectual property rights and agency agreements. Secured more effective implementation of the Competition Authoritys decisions. Parliament has adopted a law which allows fines imposed by the Authority to be collected immediately, without waiting for Supreme Court rulings on appeals.

COMPETITION

POLICY:

Turkey

harmonised its competition laws with EU rules and legislation. In December 1994, it approved a new law on the Protection of Competition and in 1997, an independent Competition Authority became operational. Turkish Competition law prohibits agreements and concerted practices that restrict competition as well as the abuse of dominant market positions and monopolies. It also regulates mergers and acquisitions.

Through CCIIE, representatives of the private sector are able to express their concerns on the investment environment to public officials and participate in the policy-making process. More recently, Turkey has established an I n v e s t m e n t A d v i s o r y C o u n c i l comprising the business leaders of 20 major international companies. IAC is designed to complement the work of CCIE by encouraging dialogue and proposing solutions to public officials. Issues identified in IAC meetings are later followed up by CCIIE. IAC had its first meeting on March 15, 2004, in Istanbul under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Turkey.
a control system to a promotion and facilitation approach. Several other developments are making the business environment in Turkey more attractive to foreign direct investment. For example, Turkey has simplified the process for obtaining a work permit by giving the authority for granting work permits to a single office and eliminating the requirement that companies obtain an investment certificate before they use an investment allowance. Additionally, the previous costly and time-consuming procedure for registering a company that consisted of 19 steps and more than two months time on average has been
replaced by a new procedure requiring only three steps and one day. Corporate transparency has been enhanced by the launch of the Turkish Accounting Standards Board in February 2003 and the Capital Market Boards Corporate Governance Principles. Studies continue on the legal changes required to improve company management and support banking reform. Ongoing projects include the establishment of an Investment Promotion Agency and the simplification and shortening of licensing procedures. The CCIIE technical committee on land acquisition and site development is trying to find ways to make this problematic process more efficient. Taxation
Investment incentives and R&D programs Customs Intellectual property rights Privatisation International arbitration FDI treatment Bureaucracy Regulatory framework Labour costs Judicial implementation Transparency in the business environment Effect of the unregistered economy on competition

OUTSTANDING ISSUES: In spite of all these
efforts, there is still room for improvement to encourage foreign direct investment in Turkey. The concerns of ERT members can be divided into two categories, those related to political and macroeconomic risks and those related to government policies and business practices. 1. Political and macroeconomic risks Financial instability Low domestic consumption levels Foreign exchange risk Balance of payments risk 2. Existence or lack of specific government policies and business practices On October 5 and 6, 2004, the ERT Enlargement Working Group will meet with the Turkish government to discuss progress made in improving the business environment in the context of Turkeys candidacy for EU membership. ERT members discussed these issues with the Prime Minister and several state ministers at the Investment Advisory Council (IAC) on March 15, 2004. The European Round Table of Industrialists-Turkey Enlargement Business Council (ERT/TEBC) will monitor the progress made by Turkey in responding to investor concerns and establishing an investmentfriendly environment.

TURKISH INDUSTRY

Whether that period is a year or a decade, the mere prospect of membership has helped in the precision alignment of the interests of both parties in a whole series of fields of mutual endeavour. These fields range from the protection
integration into Europe. The reasoning is simple. European endorsement of Turkeys political aspirations will, as much as any other conceivable factor, guarantee the long-term, stable macroeconomic environment which industry demands. That environment, in turn, provides the conditions for growth and opportunity which European manufacturers are well situated to exploit. As a destination for exports, as an opportunity for investment, and as a location for competitive manufacturing, even as the source of invisible earnings in tourism and finance, Turkey already offers immediate substantial returns to the European Union which it aspires to join. In return, Turkey asks a low-cost, long-term commitment to work together. It is a textbook case of win-win. While Turkish industry has been consistent in its commitment to Europe, it has also been realistic in its understanding of the institutional challenges which Turkish integration brings. We are ready for a long negotiation period, says Ali Babacan, the Turkish Minister of State with responsibility for the economy.
t is the deal which Turkish industry is eager to clinch. For long years, the countrys business leaders have been the most assertive advocates of Turkeys full

partners for industrial and contracting projects in third markets, whether the Turkic republics of Central Asia or challenging markets from Afghanistan to Morocco and from Russia to Singapore. Many Turkish companies have a record of successful joint ventures with leading companies in Europe, America and Japan. Additionally, many European companies are among the 6,000 companies set up in Turkey with foreign capital and now taking advantage of Turkey as a manufacturing base to supply both a domestic
market expected to total 77 million people in 2010 and countries around Turkey as well as the EU itself. As the survey carried out for this report on ERT members in Turkey showed (see page 38), what companies most appreciate about Turkey is the quality of management and labourthat is, the Turks themselves.

Made in Turkey - 4

Customs Union Winner
The Zorlu Group of companies is a story of rag trade to riches. A company which started in 1953
by weaving bed linen for the local market registered $1.4 billion worth of exports in 2002. It is Europe's largest producer of bed linen, but for the Group that is now virtually a side activity. A plant in Bursa produces under one roof a formidable 440 tonnes of polyester textured yarn per day. In 1994, the group took over some ailing consumer electronics activities. "It had the right whiff about it," says Ahmet Nazif Zorlu, President of Zorlu Holding, describing the decision to purchase Vestel from the court-appointed administrators. "All it needed was the right management." Today, Vestel produces a wide range of home electronic products, including some four million colour television sets per year, and sells them to over 80 countries,. The vast majority of its exports go to the EU. Vestel is an OEM manufacturer for many of Europe's leading brown goods suppliers and for several of its largest retail chains. This has given it a 12% share of the highly competitive European market. Growth is driven not just by exports but by the group's own research and development. This R&D includes research offices in Silicon Valley and Japan.
ASPECTS OF TURKISH CORPORATE LIFE
in high-risk environments is nothing new. Much of the $49 billion worth of contracts that they have carried out in the past three decades has been in areas where many Western companies have feared to tread. Indeed, the only unusual element of the Afghan work as of upcoming work in Iraq is that the Turks work as sub-contractors (in this case, a USAID financed project, to Louis Berger), rather than as prime contractors. Housing and power stations in Ireland, ministries and shopping centres in Moscow, a cement factory in Ethiopia, airports in the Middle East and Central Asia, petroleum installations in Siberia today, Turkeys contractors range the world. To date, they have earned the country over $15 billion in foreign exchange. Their record dates back to 1974 when two civil engineers, Sezai Trke and Fevzi Akkaya, won the first of five contracts for reconstructing harbours in Libya. The success of their company, STFA, showed the way to other Turkish contractors. Saudi Arabia and Iraq soon joined the list of key markets, and by 1988, 310 contracting firms, led by companies such as Enka, Kiska, and Kutluta, were active from Tunisia to Iran. By the time economic problems and political instability in the Middle Eastern and North African countries caused these markets to weaken, Turkeys contractors were already looking north. The 1980s had seen the industry boosted by Moscows agreement to use part of Turkeys payments for natural gas to buy Turkish contracting services. The

All these are private sector groups, set up and, in most cases, still run by families. One exception to this practice is iecam, which makes flat glass, glassware, glass packaging, glass fiber as well as sodium and chromium chemicals. This was
Since 1996, Turkish goods have been competing directly with European ones in the EU and winning a steadily larger market share. Turkish staple industrial goods command respect. Borusan of stanbul has established itself as one of Europes best manufacturers of steel pipes and piping materials, and, relying largely on its own in-house R&D, Dizayn has done the same with plastic pipes. Eczacba has managed to hold its own in competition with the giants of the international pharmaceuticals scene and to seize a sizable share of the European markets for ceramic sanitary ware and tiles.
established by Trkiye Bankas in 1935 to meet the requirements of the country in glass products. Today, this non-family group ranks between third and tenth position worldwide in its various product categories. And its subsidiary companies are reaching abroad. It has invested in Solvag S.A. in a soda plant in Bulgaria. Anadolu Cams glass packaging subsidiary, Ruscam, became operational in the Russian Federation in June 2002. It immediately launched an expansion project and a second furnace which started production in April 2003. A second subsidiary, Trakya Cam, has initiated a $100 million float line project in Bulgaria which is scheduled to come on stream in 2005.

Made in Turkey - 5

The Brand Plays On
Turkeys roaring nineties saw its own youth wearing not just jeans but Turkish blue jeans. The
Mavi brand was created in 1991 and the firm began exporting three years later. By 1996, Mavi was outselling Levi in Turkey and it had the temerity to sell its own designer brands not just throughout Europe, but in the United States itself. Products with friendly monikers like Molly, Mark, Millie and Meg turned Mavi into one of America's top brands for under-25s.There are now Mavi flagship stores in Berlins Neueschnhauser Strasse and New Yorks Union Square as well as in Frankfurt, Montreal, Vancouver and, of course, Istanbul. The company created Europe's largest integrated fashion jeans factory in a rural settlement some 120 km west of Istanbul, where1,500 people produce every year 11 million pairs of jeans. Half of production is of other peoples brands like Calvin Klein or Guess, but Mavi is still king. In 2002, sales in the US were $45 million out of a worldwide total of $250 million.
FINANCE AND ITS SHORTAGES
he accomplishments of the Turkish private sector over the last two decades are all the more remarkable when one considers the difficult political and financial
lending was a distant second. The predictable result was high financing costs for the private sector. Whatever bank lending existed was for a few months and at burdensome interest rates. Normal financial instruments used in Europe to finance corporate growth never really had a chance to develop. The capital markets have only partially filled the void, and there is no corporate bond market to alleviate the lack of bank lending. Simple mortgages are extremely limited. The owner of a pharmaceutical company said that the lack of external capital is one of the main reasons his company has remained relatively small. We generate enough cash to keep the business running at its current size, but we have nothing available for growth. Borrowing from banks at these interest rates is not an option. Using high-interest, short-term loans for long-term growth investments is a recipe for disaster.

lower inflation, companies must show they can manage this difficult transition. One incidental aspect of the move towards higher-value added production and commercial sophistication has been the increased premium on commercial land in Istanbul and Western Turkey.
Soap Knowing How To Learn
Soap manufacturer Evyap is another traditional
Turkish company that has been able to adapt successfully to the demands of a global economy. My father started this business in 1927 in Erzurum, when he learned contemporary soap manufacturing from a Russian expert who had escaped from the civil war in his country. Today, we have the largest soap manufacturing capacity in Europe, have established plants in Egypt and the Ukraine, and export to more than 100 countries, said Fikret Evyap. The company has also established its own port facility just outside Istanbul and built a second plant to produce additional personal care products, disposable diapers and feminine hygiene products. Evyap has about 3,000 employees in Turkey and has continued to improve productivity. In 2002 it took 35 man hours to produce a ton of soap. It had reduced this to 22 man hours by early-2004.
This has resulted in a reverse of a historic trend of immigration from east to west, as production is increasingly out-sourced to the periphery or firms relocate to the new centres of Anatolian industy.
OPERATING FLEXIBILITY: Will the same
operating and management skills they developed over the past decade or more be sufficient for the next decade? In this effort , Turkish companies have a number of strong assets and a few big liabilities. One of the major assets is high-quality human capital. Middle level and senior professional management is well educated and highly trained. With the reforms of the 1980s, the Customs Union of 1996, global expansion, and the radically changed macroeconomic environment, companies have often had to reach beyond immediate family members to help develop the business. A major asset of Turkish companies is the operating flexibility that is the envy of many companies in the European Union. Turkish entrepreneurs have proved quick to respond to rapidly changing economic conditions. Production can be shifted quickly from domestic markets to exports. Managers have moved quickly to capitalize on emerging opportunities in Russia, the Middle East, or Central Asia. After surviving the confusion in Turkey during much of the last 15 years, managements are more comfortable in those types of markets than many of their EU counterparts. While labour costs in Turkey are certainly lower than in the EU, managers are well aware that low labour costs alone are not

planned to increase their investment in Turkey. On the other hand, virtually none had any intention to reduce their commitment to the country. While few companies had said they attached importance to Turkey as an export base, almost all intended to increase their use of Turkey to supply other markets. This approach applied almost across the board, from building materials to pharmaceuticals. There was also a wide variety in expectations of markets which could be served, with a slight emphasis on the Middle East. At the same time, most companies looked for increased sales to the Turkish market. The companies main concerns were of political volatility in Turkey and a spillover of the problems seen in Iraq. Most respondents also welcomed other qualities that Turkey could bring to the EU, notably a link to the Islamic word (disproving talk of a clash of civilisations) and its large market. Several emphasised the importance of Turkey as a bridge to Central Asia and its low manufacturing costs. The main problems which it would bring were almost all associated with increased budgetary costs, largely because of the need to help Turkeys large agricultural sector. A few respondents were also concerned about the risk of large-scale emigration to the EU. However, respondents were unanimous in believing that Turkeys private sector qualities were equivalent to those in Western Europe, and most thought that they were much better than those in Eastern Europe.
THE PRIVATE SECTORS SOCIAL AGENDA
history. The programme succeeded in enrolling 1.1 million children and required the immediate construction of 3,900 new primary education schools and the addition of 15,300 new classrooms to existing institutions. That initiative would never have succeeded without the support of the countrys private sector. The Istanbul Stock Exchange was one of the biggest contributors, giving well over $200 million. Much of the Exchanges efforts went into building boarding schools for children from remote regions who had no easy access to education. These efforts, according to a World Bank assessment, gave positive publicity to the Exchange and showed its members to be formidable social partners. This language of civic partnerships and social responsibility is now very much a part of Turkish corporate life. The rise in less than two decades of non-governmental organisations and a new generation of civic activists has coincided with a new corporate and individual attitude towards philanthropy and sponsorship. Turkish business has promoted independent think-tanks and policy units as well as environmental and conservation NGOs. Corporations, successful businessmen, and well-motivated individuals continue to endow museums, professorial chairs abroad, and private universities at home. Industry has rushed to the A glance at the skyline of any classical Turkish city is proof that charitable works are not a recent habit. Mosques built by rulers or the rich were traditionally the centrepieces of social welfare complexes which included schools, medical centres, public kitchens and the other functions which have long since devolved to the secular polity. Industrys social commitment has remained constant and now ranges from well-intentioned corporate sponsorship to the anonymous funding of non-profit foundations which attempt to plug gaps in the welfare state. Increasingly, however, corporations are thoughtfully engaged in strategic and social change philanthropy. Business has learned the wisdom of emerging from shadows and political lobbies and becoming an open partner in public debate. It does not simply talk about reform but is acting within the transparent framework of NGOs and other organisations of civil society to make that change a reality. Overwhelmingly, it is the incentive of membership of the European Union and the example presented by organisations as various as George Soross Open Society Institute or the German Stiftung system the foundations aid of victims of flood and earthquake, women wanting to read and write, and pre-school children, along with wildlife and endangered habitats.

The success of the Istanbul arts festivals, the principal conduit for arts sponsorship, has in turn encouraged other corporations to administer their own activities. The firm Borusan runs its own symphony orchestra. Tekfen, too, sponsors the Black Sea Symphony Orchestra as well as
Turkish philanthropy has been the endowment of some 23 private foundation universities. The first of these, Bilkent, was started in 1984, at the time that the government was centralising the state university system. Ko University opened its doors to 191 undergraduates and 42 graduate
students in 1993 and now has an enrolment of some 3,000 students in its own prestigious campus outside Istanbul. Bilgi University chose the different strategy of siting itself in two inner-city, poor neighbourhoods. It has attracted a highly respected faculty, many of whom felt out of place in the state system and who were attracted by the institutions alternative image. Unlike New York Citys New School, to which it is sometime compared, Bilgi rejects the public funding available to it. It has tried to integrate itself not just into its own neighbourhoods but the fabric of the country with community projects and outreach programmes.
Another newcomer and highly respected for its attitude towards academic innovation is Sabanc University. It is widely regarded as having raised the bar on academic freedoms in Turkey. Sabanc also adopts a broad interdisciplinary approach to learning in contrast to the traditional faculties, and requires its undergraduates to do two terms of NGO work or other community service, attracting highly-qualified Turkish and other academics as a result.
Construction and Seismic Research
Greater proof of Turkish firms new sense of responsibility is not the charitable activities which they chose to finance but a change in corporate culture itself. Increasing Turkish industrys definition of social responsibility is not an addon module to its mainstream activities but something intrinsic to what it does best.
Yap Merkezi, which began as a research and
design company in 1965, has become Turkey's largest prefabricated concrete producer and is highly committed to seismic research. The company builds underground railways, pharmaceutical factories, and restores historical buildings. Like other corporations, it makes active contributions to the community, in its case particularly in the field of science education. It sponsors schools, science fairs, and scholarships for higher study. Yet perhaps the greater contribution is that the industrial estate which it built in the Marmara Basn near the epicentre of the 1999 earthquake was unaffected by that disaster. The public buildings which it retrofitted in the city of Adapazar in 1967 are still standing after a 7.4 Richter quake.
TURKEY AND THE LISBON AGENDA
Just as the launch of private sector mobile operators stimulated this sector, so the impending privatisation of 51% of the shares of Trk Telekom, the incumbent fixed line operator, is expected to stimulate investment in other forms urkey has a broad and continuing commitment to the issues in the Lisbon Agenda of entrepreneurship, competition, innovation and research of communication. January 2004 saw the formal ending of Trk Telekoms monopoly in voice communication and infrastructure, and investors, local and international, have been developing plans for value-added services. The Turkish information technology market is estimated to have been worth $1.8 billion in 2003. About one-half of this was made up of hardware, one-sixth by packaged software and the balance by customised software, services and consumables, according to IDC. Improved protection of intellectual property a by-product of Turkeys Customs Union with the EU has reduced the problem of piracy, and the recent launch of courts specialising in the area is expected to improve enforcement of legislation. Telecommunications added a further $7.4 billion

and development. The examples cited above of successful Turkish groups and their export record speaks for itself, while the mobile operator, Turkcell, is both symbol of and contributor to Turkeys advance into the digital age. It has 19 million subscribers, making it the sixth largest mobile operator in Europe, and has helped establish GSM operators in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran (agreement signed in February 2004), Kazakhstan and Moldova. To date, it has invested around $4 billion. It is the first Turkish company to be quoted on the New York Stock Exchange. As of February 2004, it had international roaming agreements with 384 operators in 158 countries.
Turkish ICT Market Breakdown

(Million USD)

SUBSECTOR IT HARDWARE SOFTWARE SERVICES TELECOM HARDWARE CARRIER SERVICES CONSUMPTION GOODS TOTAL
2001 1,869 1,565 6,10,723

2002 1,742 1,173 6,9,515

SHARE IN 2002 (%) 11.2 3.15 7.8 12.3 64.4 1.06 100
Source: Bilisim 500 study (www.interpro.com.tr/bilisim500)
to the sectors turnover in 2002, with carrier services the major element in this. The rapid response of Turks to the services offered by Turkcell, which include General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and multi-media messaging (MMS), and by the two other Turkish GSM operators (Telecom Italias subsidiary, tim, recently merged with Trk Telekoms Aycell) is a confirmation of one of the key lessons of the past decade, the speed at which Turks adopt to new
technology. Around 500,000 PCs are sold each year and 1 million Turks are Internet subscribers.
ENHANCING PRODUCTS DEVELOPED ABROAD: A second key element has been
the imagination which Turks have shown in

Nortel in Turkey

From switch gear to software
Neta is the largest private R&D organisation in
Turkey and allocates 6-9% of its annual revenues to R&D activities. Its R&D laboratory has been the fourth largest institution engaged in the development of Synchronized Digital Hierarchy (SDH) technology, the international standard for synchronous data transmission over fibre optic cables, within Nortel Networks. Its members work as technology spokespersons in various national and international platforms, and participate in the technology meetings with the ATM and DECT manufacturers, European and North American standards bodies. It is the largest software exporter in Turkey, with its total exports exceeding $40 million per year. After long concentrating on digital switching, it has recently been working on optical technologies such as Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), used to increase bandwith over existing fibre optic networks
and SDH. SDH is the core technology of the 10Gbit/sec networks, the fastest optical networking technology available today. 90% of the world's optical traffic is carried over Nortel Networks products. Nortel Networks/Neta has also developed the switch infrastructure for the TASMUS (Tactical Field Communication System) project to supply the tactical communication needs of the Turkish Armed Forces as well as a Ruggedised Switch to address the voice and data communication needs of the military units in the open field. This switch can be quickly repositioned, is fully compatible with severe environmental conditions, and can function on both analogue and ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) networks. This completely locally designed switch is also suitable for other applications, including ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and IP (Internet Protocol).

determined by the National Productivity Centre in 2003 closer to the 10-20% range applying in western Europe. A central birth registry, Mernis, became operational in January 2003. Other areas of egovernment include land registry, pharmaceutical prescriptions, vehicle taxes, and the automation of tax offices and Ministry of Justice records. The State Planning Organisation says that the main policy of the government in the telecommunications sector is to establish a competitive market structure in all segments, in order to help increase service quality and the range of innovative and value-added services while reducing costs. It argues that the government has taken measures to improve ICT production and R&D in order to increase exports as well as to meet domestic market needs. Software has been classed as a strategic sector for Turkey. Tax exemptions until the end of 2013 are provided for companies operating in technoparks and the action plan of the e-Transformation Turkey Project envisages Turkey becoming a centre of excellence in software. The government is encouraging foreign direct investment into the sector. It also aims for Turkey to become a service provider for outsourcing.
This is a programme launched in 2000 by the
Supreme Science and Technology Council. It aimed to develop by 2003 a 20-year programme for IT development culminating the centenary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic. It has four components, developing a technological perspective for the country, taking an inventory of national technology, building a database of Turkish scientists, and developing the countrys R&D infrastructure. Progress to date has been less rapid than planned.
A BURGEONING CULTURAL LIFE
on Europes cultural scene with success in music, sports and art. In France, a Turkish journalist established Sipa, one of the countrys leading photographic agencies. In the visual arts, Turks have performed especially strongly and the centre urkey today is a modern metropolitan society capable of further accelerating progress and playing a much more important role in the world of arts and of their activities has been Paris. Designers like Rfat zbek or Hseyin alayan have paved the way for the many young Turks of the fashion world. Turkish designers like Defne Koz or Aye Birsel are recognised in Milan and New York. Individual Turks have also taken up
culture. About two-thirds of the 70 million Turks live in urban settlements and their lifestyle is more often than not simply that of the modern world. The growth of the last two decades has been accompanied by an amazing transformation in the quality of life. Turks, in Turkey and abroad, are fast shrugging off the image of the rough Anatolian peasant. There are no communities in Turkey which are so remote now that they do not have access to television, and the prototype Turkish family resembles that of any modern society. If a house is tucked in a street too narrow for a truck, as in historical Mardin, donkeys will perform, and the obligatory washing machines will reach its destination. Use of the Internet, often through Internet cafs, spreads right down into the most remote rural community. Car ownership has become widespread while foreign-make cars abound in Istanbul. Yet few of the drivers of the snappy Peugeot 206, one of the popular models, are aware that this car is the brainchild of a Turkishborn designer. The "culturally different" label notwithstanding, in recent years, Turkey has made significant strides

Medium term prospects for the Company in Turkey: To strengthen its position in the field of
Consumer Electronics, Trk Philips is cooperating with one of the leading Turkish electronics manufacturers for the production of consumer electronics products for sales under the Philips brand on the local market and also for export to Western Europe. In view of increasing export possibilities to Central Asia and the Middle East, and because of forecast increasing construction activities in Turkey, Trk Philips continues investing in its Luminaires manufacturing factory in Istanbul. Philips continues to look for opportunities to work together with Turkey's ever more sophisticated local industry for production of some of its products to export to the region and for sales on the local market. Trk Philips continues to invest in marketing skills and in the further development of its nationwide distribution network in Turkey.

TRK TUBORG

The Company: Carlsberg Beer was first brewed in
1847 by J.C. Jacobsen outside Copenhagen, pioneering steam brewing, refrigeration techniques and the production of a pure single yeast strain. One of the top five world brewers, Carlsberg has been an influential player on the international beer market for well over a century. While the beer-drinking nations of Western Europe have traditionally been Carlsberg's most important markets, the company also has a strong presence in the growth regions of Eastern Europe and Asia.
Breweries A., Trk Tuborg has increased the scale of its investments in its plant in zmir, made considerable improvements in its overall sub-structure, and diversified its product profile.
Rationale for investing in Turkey: Carlsberg
has been active in Turkey as part owner of Trk Tuborg since 1967. Carlsberg became majority owner of the company in 2001 and increased its activities in Turkey in line with its global strategy and in view of the prospects of a growing economy and increasing consumer spending. Furthermore, Turkey

Carlsberg Breweries:

Produces 8.2 billion litres of beer per year, equivalent to about 68 million 33cl bottles a day Sells beer in more than 140 markets Employs more than 31,000 people Owns a strong portfolio which includes some of the world's best known international beer brands Carlsberg & Tuborg Brews beer in 90 locations in 45 countries

is attracting an increasing number of tourists every year and serves as an excellent base for exports to neighbouring countries.
Per capita consumption is around 12 litres, a low figure when compared to EU levels. The Turkish market has potential for growth and has grown on average 9% annually between 1981 and 2002. Forecasts made last year for the 2002-2007 period
Tuborg in Turkey: Carlsberg traces its presence
back to 1967 when United Breweries, now owned by Carlsberg, set up Trk Tuborg Brewing and Malting Inc. in partnership with Yaar Holding. Having started production in 1969, Trk Tuborg introduced to the market the first privately produced beer in Turkey under the trademark" Tuborg". Carlsberg Breweries A/S today holds a 95.5% shareholding in Trk Tuborg, the rest being traded on the stanbul Stock Exchange. Since the acquisition by Carlsberg
demonstrate that sales can still grow, though at much lower rates. However, three subsequent excise tax increases during the course of 2003 and 2004 have dampened prospects. Increasing exports, particularly to neighbouring countries is among the priority objectives of the company.
Direct and indirect benefits for the local economy: The Company has created additional
demand for a large number of raw materials required for the production of beer including demand for the production of malting barley and hops, from which thousands of producers earn their livelihood from Trk Tuborg. In addition to the over 1,000 employees it directly employs in its operations, it has also created job opportunities in a wide spectrum of activities ranging from retailing, and wholesaling services to packaging and transportation industries. It has a well-established Research and Development Department equipped with highly sophisticated and advanced laboratory equipment. Employee training has been one of the top priorities of management policy. A considerable amount of funds is allocated every year for the training of company personnel at all levels. 2003 which have placed excise tax level for beer in Turkey considerably above the weighted average of excise tax levels of EU countries and much that those in the new EU members. Frequent changes resulting in prohibitively high excise tax levels have not only caused serious operational and fiscal losses for the company, but also made it impossible to rely on business plans and budget forecasting. The government's excise tax policy for beer has clearly failed to consider the market conditions under which beer companies in Turkey are operating. Another adverse development has been the total ban on consumer promotions, and the additional advertising restrictions of 2003. While the company has had to increase the prices of its products above the inflation rate to compensate for the additional tax burden, many of its marketing

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Multipliers are counted according to the criteria indicated in part 6, but both European and non-European multipliers are counted. A call sign can only be counted as a multiplier, if the serial number it sent was URL: http://www.waedc.de recorded. In the best case, for a completely recorded QSO, two points Message to contest manager (no logs): waedc-info@dxhf.darc.de and two multipliers can be credited.

10 Submissions

Logs need to be sent in STF or Cabrillo-Format to the following 13 Special Rules for RTTY e-mail address: In the RTTY portion of the WAEDC there are no continental limits; evCW logs: waecw@dxhf.darc.de (log robot) erybody can work everybody. Only QTC traffic must be performed beSSB logs: waessb@dxhf.darc.de (log robot) tween different continents. RTTY logs: waertty@dxhf.darc.de (log robot) Every station may send and receive QTCs. The sum of QTCs exBe sure to put the station callsign in the subject of each message. changed between two stations (sent plus received) must not exceed ten. By submitting an electronic log, the participant claims to fully accept the rules of the contest. A written declaration is not neces- The European and non-European multipliers indicated in part 6 count for all stations. sary. Hand-written logs:

14 Log Deadline

After the contest use a proper logging program or LM from CW: September 15; SSB: October 15; RTTY: December 15, 2008. DL8WAA to enter your data. See Link: http://contestsoftware.com/e/home.htm
Criteria for WAEDC Awards and Plaques
Continental winners will receive a plaque. Printable online certificates If you do not have a computer, please ask a friend or family mem- will be available for all stations on result publication. ber to import the log. Stations who activated a WAE country for the WAEDC from where no log was received over the last three years will receive a special prize. 11 Club Competition For 2008 these are: The club score is calculated by adding the final results of all participating club members in all three WAE contests, excluding SWLs. To be counted, the name of the club has to be indicated in the log on a separate line using the keyword Club.
1A, 3A, C3, SV/A, OY, R1F, JX, R1M, T7, JW, HV
Stations who have been into the top ten/top six list for at least five times can apply for a special plaque. The WAEDC committee reserves the right to honor special contest activities with additonal plaques.
The club must not be an official national amateur radio club. Participating club members must live within an area of a circle with WAE Country List a maximum of 500 km (312 miles) diameter. For a club to be listed, a minimum of three logs must be submitted. 1A 3A 4O 4U1I 4U1V 9A 9H C3 CT CU DL E7 EA EA6 EI ER ES EU F G GD A trophy is sponsored for the top DX (non-EU) and the top EU GI GJ GM GM/s GU GW HA HB HB HV I clubs. IS IT JW JW/b JX LA LX LY LZ OE OH OH OJ OK OM ON OY OZ PA R1F For the German DARC/VFDB-Clubmeisterschaft put your R1M RA RA2 S5 SM SP SV SV/A SV5 SV9 DOK in the log on a separate line using the keyword Specific. T7 TA1 TF TK UR YL YO YU YU8 Z3 ZA ZB.

On the follow graphic you see that we have in 2007 almost as many logs as in 2004. Thanks to all participants, hope to see your log also in the next WAE season!
If you send your log to the right e-mail address, the robot verifies your log and may reject it, if your file does not match the rules. Please note: If the robot sends you an e-mail and something is wrong, please attach the robot mail in your answer, so we can see what is happend.

Golden Logs

There are some logs with an error rate of 0 %, called Golden Logs. 54 stations on CW, 73 on SSB and 27 on RTTY had no errors in their logs at all. The stations which scored highest with an error-free log where:
Mode Call CW SSB JA1BPA VR10XLN

QSOs QTCs Mults 148

Score 15540
FAQ - Frequently Ask Questions
We often get questions about your log, software, robot-mails etc. Most questions are answered on the WAEDC website. You find the FAQ on http://www.waedc.de. Anyway, we will answer some of your question here.

RTTY DJ3EF

Looking forward
Activated countries since 2003
It is interesting to see how many countries were acitvated in the contest. For 2007 the contest manager Helmut, DF7ZS himself counted 107 different countries for the complete WAE DX Contest!

Question: QTC exchange

I made a qso with a station, but we did not exchange QTC. I met him later again on the same band and he requested me to send
From the next season on the plaques have a new look! The Contestmanager, Helmut DF7ZS created a new and modern award. We all are looking forward to it.
Worked All Europe DX Contest (WAEDC) CW
Results by Helmut Mller, DF7ZS WAE DX Contest team: DL2YOU, DL8WPX, DL8WX, DJ1YFK, DL6MHW, DL6OCK

Continental Winners

Single Operator High Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Single Operator Low Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Multi Operator Asia Europe North America Oceania South America SWL Category Europe

Top Scores

Call 5H3EE UA9CLB RW1AC VY2ZM KH6ND PY2KC QSOs 10 Top Ten Single Operator High Europe RW1AC LY2IJ DL3TD UU7J HA3OV OM2VL DK9PY 4O3A OM5ZW OL8M Top Ten Single Operator High Outside Europe UA9CLB 4L8A ZC4LI VY2ZM RG9A VO1AAM RW9SW UA9CDC VY2MT NN3W Top Ten Single Operator Low Europe CT6A S57DX DM3W DK5DQ DJ6BQ DR5X HA6PS UW8SM SP1NY DL8UCC Top Ten Single Operator Low Outside Europe UA9BA RT9S K1XM UA9TZ RA9AP RA9DZ RA0ALM RA9JR E21EIC VE2FWW Top Six Multi Operator Europe DR1A DM1A YR7M HG1S SO9Q DR4A Top Six Multi Operator Outside Europe RK9CWW K9RS NR4M JA3YBK W4MYA YE1ZAT Score all QTCs 128 Multipliers all 467 487

Canada Call Area 3 VE3AT High VE3XB High VE3UTT (OP: W1AJT) VE3OSZ VE3XD VE3IAE VA3PL VE3KZ VE3RCN High Low Low Low Low Low Low
Canada Call Area 4 VE4YU Low Canada Call Area 7 VA7ST High Canary Is. EA8MQ EA8BEX Chile CE3BFZ China BD3APX Colombia HK3Q East Malaysia 9M6XRO Georgia 4L8A 4L2M Greenland OX/OZ7BQ Hawaii KH6ND India VU2UR Indonesia YB0DPO YB4IR YB3MM YE1ZAT Israel 4Z5QQ Japan Call Area 0 JA0FVU Japan Call Area 1 JF1SQC JO1WKO JL1LNC 7J1ABD JA1BPA (OP: JA6-9330) JA1BJI JP1SRG JA1XRH JA1MZM JA1CPZ JE1RRK JK1ATT/1 JA1HG Japan Call Area 2 JA2XYO JF2QNM JA2PFO JK2VOC Japan Call Area 3 JH3PRR JQ3UDL High Low High Low
High High Low Low Multi Low

262668 126

212 14
Netherlands Antilles PJ2G (OP: G3TXF) High New Zealand Call Area 2 ZM2B (OP: ZL2BR) High Oman A45WG A45WD (OP: YO9HP) High Low

547815

104940 338004

394 683

401 691

132 246

High High

180 88060

893 253

904 264

239 66
High 1914066 Low 256960 Low High Low Low Low Low Multi Low High High High High High Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low High High Low Low High Low 429483 34122
South Africa Call Area 6 ZS6AA High Tanzania 5H3EE (OP: DL4SM) Thailand E21EIC ZC4LI

774522

United States Call Area 5 N5AW Low United States Call Area 6 N6TV High N6AA High W6NKR High N6KW High K6XX High W6SJ Low United States Call Area 7 K7RL High KO7AA High N6MA/7 High NG7Z Low

348090

654 1884

576 1802

283 456
UK Bases on Cyprus High 1680816 United States Call Area 0 W0CW (OP: KU1CW) High 199055 W0/PA5KT (OP:PA5KT ) High 15879 K0COP High 3724 K0XP Low 33552 United States Call Area 1 K5ZD/1 High N4CW/1 High K1GU High K1ZZ High W1GD High W1EBI High W1UJ High KC1F High K1XM Low AB1FY Low AE1T Low K1TH Low WO1N Low N1WQ Low United States Call Area 2 NO2R High N2MM High K2QMF High W2LE High K2NV High K2SX High W2OO High K2XA High N2BJ High N2NS High WK2G Low K2MFY Low 181220 13532

440 98

444 101

205 68

United States Call Area 8 K8AJS High 160752 KU8E High 58855 W8OHT High 7521 AJ1M/8 High 3172 AA8LL Low 23205 United States Call Area 9 W9RE High 301636 W9IU High 232618 NO9E High 31024 W9WI High 20493 N9CK High 12474 KG9N High 5480 WT9U High 140 WJ9B Low 329596 K9QVB Low 94393 W9ILY Low 28035 K9GY Low 1209 W9VQ Low 234

Disqualifications

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Station Operators:

4O3A: IZ3EYZ, 4U1VIC: OE1TKW, OE1ZKC/JH4RHF, OE3JOS/ NK4N , 5H3EE: DL4SM, 8S0W: SM0NJO, 9A/S53AU/P: S53AU, 9A5Y: 9A5TO , 9K2HN: 9K2HN, 9K2RR, A45WD: YO9HP, AJ1M/8: AJ1M, CT6A: CT1ILT, DA0CB: DM3ZF, DA0I: DK1II, DB7YAH: DB7YAH, DL1OBF, DD5M: DJ0ZY, DE2SAT: DG0OKW, DF0SX: DL5YM DE2BWE, DF4AJ: DF4AJ, DF4AK, DF4AO: DF4AO, DF4AM, DG2YIR: DG2YIR, DD1OP, DJ0VZ: DJ0VZ, DK5KE, DF3GL, DJ2KH: DJ2KH, DC0OH, DJ3HW: DJ3HW DD6QN, DJ3XK: DJ3XK DK6HA, DJ7LB: DJ7LB, DC2FI, DJ7LH: DJ7LH DK8MCT, DK0KTL: DJ2AX, DK0OD: DF3CU, DL2MDU, DL4MHA, DG7RO, DK2R: DJ1ZU DJ6RA, DK5M: DL5AOJ, DM2HM, DL0AD: DJ5KX, DJ8EI, DH1TS, DL0AU: DF5CB DF9GR DL3MCO, DL0C: DL6UBM, DL8UKE, DL0CS: DF9LJ,DJ9MH,DK2OY,DL1QQ, DL5KUT,DL5SE, DL0IL: DF2KK, DL0KB: DL2GBB, DL0LA: DL6RAI, DL5RBR, DL0OS: DL8BEH/SWL, DL5L: DG0OKW, DM1A: DJ2PB, DJ5MW, DK9IP, DL1IAO, DL3YM, DL7JAN, DM3B: DD9DAG DL5JBW DL7VAF, DM3K: DM3PKK, DM3W: DK3WW, DM6M: DL2OBO,DL5HAH,DL5XX, DM7P: DL1RSH, DL2RTD, DL2RTJ, DL2RTL, DL3RMJ, DL9JSO, DP6M: DK9IP, DL9OT, DQ1A: DJ5IR, DG3UAS, DR1A: DB6JG,DJ6ET,DJ7EO, DL1MGB,DL3DXX,DL5LYM,DL6FBL,DL8DYL,DL9DRA,DO2WW, DE1DDH,DL4WG, DR3R: DL3BWG, DR4A: DJ9KM, DK8ZB, DK9VZ, DL8WAA, DM1TT, DR5X: DL8LAS, ED1L: EA1BLX, EG5S: EA5DFV, ES1A: ES1GE, GW6GW: GW4BLE, HA1Q: DH8VV, HA6PS: ZSOLT , HG1S: HA1TJ HA1DAI HA1DAC HA1DAE , J43J: DJ5JH, JA1BPA: JA6-9330, JA3YBK: JG3KIV, JG3MRT, JG3WDN, JP3PZD, JH4NMT , JA3YPL: JJ3TBB, K3DI: W3UL K3DI, K3MJW: K3MD, K9RS: N3DXX, K9RS, KM4M: W3BP,LN8W: LA7MFA, LN9Z: LA9HW, LR2F: LW8DQ , LW1E: LU1EWL, LX7I: DL1EKC, LY6A: LY2BM, LY9Y:LY2CY, LZ5A: LZ3ND, LZ6A: LZ2EG, MZ8A: MM0XAU, N6AA: VU2PTT/AF6DV,NR4M: K4EC K4ZW K7SV KC4D NR4M W4DF, NY4A: N4AF, OJ0B: OH2PM, OK2KFK: OK2ABU, OL6P: OK2WTM, OM3R: OM3CFR, OQ5M: ON5ZO, PJ2G: G3TXF, PS2T: PY2NY, PT7AG: PY8AZT, PY2KC: PY2YU, RG9A:UA9AM, RK2FXG: RA2FIR RA2FB SERGE( NO CALL), RK9CWW: RA9CMO RU9CD UA9CIR UA9CSA, RK9CZO: RU9CI, UA9CTT, RT9S: UA9SP, S53M: S51FB, S59ABC: S51DS,SD3A: SM3FJF, SN0IPY: SP6T, SN100S: SP9EMI; SP9DSD, SN2K: SP2FWC SP2IST, SN6A: SP6CES, SO9Q: SP5HNK, SP9QMP, SP9XCN, SP9H, SQ6MS, SQ9JKW,SP9KRT: SP9ADU, SP9ZW , UA9UZZ: RZ9UN RK9UE UA9UX, UP0L: UN9LW, UT0U: UT5UDX, UU5A: UU2JQ UU5YL, UU7J: UU4JMG,UW5U: UY2UA, UW7W: US-W-73, US-W-5, VE3UTT: W1AJT, VO1AAM: VE3DZ, W0CW: KU1CW, W4MYA: W4MYA WK4Y, YE1ZAT: YD1JZ YD1GCL YC1KAF YB1CCF YB1KAR YE1AA,YL7X: YL2LY, YO8KAE, YO8BIG , YR7M: YO3CTK, YO3JR, YO9GZU, YO9WF, YT8A: YU1EA , Z36W, Z32ID & YL ALEKSANDRA, ZM2B: ZL2BR, ZX5J: PP5JR , PP5NW, PP5AMP, P5FMM.

Andrew, ZS6AA DK9PY: The conditions were bad again this year. However, thanks to all those stations who were able to send me QTCs. This is the best part of the contest and I really enjoyed it. Too bad that there was no 10m opening to the US. CU again in 2008! 73, Armin DK9PY. DL4JU: WAEDC is the best, thanks for it. See you again next year with better condx (?)! DL7UMK: Nice contest again but I missed lot of DXCC from last year. 10m was almost dead. The QTC count was nice this year, doubled from last year. See you next year! Vy 73 de Manfred DL7UMK DM1A: Thanks to all DX stations for making this a fun event - despite ZERO sunspots. DM3W: typical condx for the sunspot minimum. the same fight like 2005, strong qrn on the low bands, heard more stations using beverage than I could reach, nice opening to North America on 20m Sunday night but weak sigs. tnx for the exercised patience. Cu next year EA5ARC: Used SD for logging, awful condx, local QRM at S9 but enjoyed contest. ES4MM: ICOM ICWtts. DL 80/40m GP 20/15/10m, Thanks all OPs who worked in my favorite CONTEST! G0MTN: Just playing with 100w and Windom. Quite tough going. Congrats to those that operated the full 36 / 48. G4DBX: This was my first time at the WAE CW contest. G4WGE: So there are lots of EU stations calling the DX station when someone sends QTC? All I hear is a meaningless string of call signs as the DX station fades back into the noise. I hate QTCs. GM3YTS: Enjoyed my first WAE contest. I will spend more time next when I hope there will be better conditions. GM4UBJ: Working the two days so could only operate during my free time, however I enjoyed my limited time operating and I will use QTCs next time.now lets get that tower built. GW0ETF: First serious attempt and very enjoyable. Conditions poor FT990 and 100 watts to a 33m doublet 11m high HG1S: In this year problem was with the computers and propagation. Our congratulations to the German guys, they are always the best in WAEDC. I2WIJ: Very lousy conditions, and not enough time to a serious effort. I had fun anyway with QTCs! CU next one. Bob, I2WIJ I3FDZ: I resumed my old TS430S because the TS850SAT got failure three days before the contest. The old rig didnt fail. A lot of QRN on low bands the second day. IZ5GRS: Vy good contest. See you next year. My rig Icom IC7400 - 100W Ant. Vertical Higain DX88. JH3PRR: The WAEDC CW is the most enjoyable contest in summer time from my station located on the north side of

Checklogs

Many thanks to the following stations submitting checklogs: DF1IAQ, DG8VE, DJ1CW, DJ2OS, DL0OS, DL2BC, DL2BIS, DL2HWI, DL4CF, DL4DXL, DL6HTA, DL8QS, EB5CNK, EX2M, G3UHU, GW6GW, HA1SN, HA8VV, IW5EIJ, K6GEP, LA4RT, LY6A, LZ1QV, OH0/DJ3KR, PY7OJ, RA1QN, RA3XDX, RA4ST, RA9AC, RN3ANT, SM0IMJ, SO9O, SP2FAP, SP5ELM, SP7HOV, SP9MDY, UA4FFF, UA4WLI, UA9QQ, UN9L, UW7W, YB6LD, YL3DX, YO3JOS, Z35G

Soapbox Comments

2E0CVN: Not a lot of activity, very slow at times, where were some of the big guns such as KC1XX, K1LZ, ZL6QH, and JH4UYB? 4O3A: It was a repeation of year 2005: bad conds and lots of QRN! Hope 2008 will bring an improvement. 9A5Y: Software problems including often automatic switch to 20m when receiving QTC. After going to work with 152 QSOs program started counting from 139. No DX cluster use. IC-756PROII+PRO67B+Inverted Vee for 80m. 9M6XRO: Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP & Quadra Linear running 400 watts output. Ant: 2el Cubical Quad & Butternut HF2V Vertical, both up approx 27m I made a late start and found the band condx rather poor on Saturday but they were reasonably good on Sunday and I even managed a few contacts on 10m. I updated my N1MM Logger program ahead of the contest but another upgrade was released just after I did that. The result was that I had a problem logging Montenegro, YT3A and 4O3A! Later when I sent a QTC it skipped those QSOs. The moral update your contest program on the day of the contest! A45WG: Good fun, and at times good conditions. Unassisted. CU2JT: Another year with poor propagation
Worked All Europe DX Contest (WAEDC) SSB
Single Operator High Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Single Operator Low Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Multi Operator Asia Europe North America Oceania South America SWL Category Asia Europe North America EA9LZ UA9CDC RW1AC KC1XX ZL2UO PJ2F
Call QSOs 20 Top Ten Single Operator High Europe Score all QTCs 92 Multipliers all 412 343
6W7RV UA9BA YU7W HI3TEJ YB4IR LU4DX

Colombia HK3Q High HK3JJH Low Costa Rica TE2M (OP: TI2KAC) High TI2JCY Low Dominican Republic HI3TEJ Low East Malaysia 9M6XRO 9M6YBG Ecuador HC1JQ French Guiana FY1FL Georgia 4L4WW 4L8A Grenada J3/DL7VOG Hong Kong VR10XLN Indonesia YB1TJ YB4IR YB2OK YB0ECT YB0NFL Israel 4Z5ML 4X0T (OP:4Z5FI) High Low Low High High High Low High High Low Low Low Low High Low
South Africa Call Area 6 ZS6AA High Tanzania 5H3EE (OP: DL4SM) Thailand E21YDP E21EIC/8 Turkey TA3YE TA3GO Turkmenistan EZ8-001

870 282

High Low Low Low Low Low Multi High Low
UK Bases on Cyprus ZC4LI High United States Call Area 0 K0KX Low WB0YJT Low

152 40

Japan Call Area 1 JQ1BVI High
United States Call Area 1 KC1XX (OP: OE6MBG) High 1707624

1987 1859

K1TTT KK1L K1TC KC1F AJ1M WO1N WA1Z K1XM N1IXF N1API AE1T W1SRB
High High High High High High High Low Low Low Low Low

4408 180

1967 1682
IZ7EDQ, K6III, LA6BNA, LX1KC, LY1K, LY6A, OK2OP, RA3XDX, RA6YDX, RL3BM, RL3FA, RU3EJ, RW4FX, RX3AGD, RZ3ATE, SP1DMD, SP3FUK, SP5BYC/6, SP9CLU, UA9QQ, UW5U, UX0FF, YR1A.

Station Operators

4X0T: 4Z5FI, 5H3EE: DL4SM, 9K2HN: 9K2HN, 9K2YM, 9K2RR, A52AM: JA0JHA, DA0WAE: DB8NI DJ9MH DL2YL DL4NER DL5NDX DL6RAI DO6NI, DA3T: DL8DXL DA3X: DL5JS DL5KUT DL6EZ, DD5M: DJ0ZY, DE2SAT: DG0OKW, DF0HQ: DJ9AO,DL1AUZ, DL3TD, DL4MM, DL5ANT, DL5AXX, DL5GA, DL7ZZ, DJ9AO, DF3TE: DH1PAL, DD6QN, DJ3XK: DJ3XK DK6HA, DJ5GG: DJ5GG, DG5NFF, DJ7LH: DJ7LH, DL1MDY, DK0ED: OE7AJT, DJ5CL, DK0MN: DD5FZ, DK2A: DK5NAD, DK2NE, DL8NCR, DL1NME, DL9NWE, DL8NAS, DK5M: DL5AOJ, DM2HM, DL0C: DL8UKE, DM7OKH, DL0GD: DC2FI, DD1OP, DF4AJ, DF4AK, DJ2KH, DJ3HW, DJ7LB, DL1OBF, DO1HBR, DL0MB: DG3IAM, DF2UU, DL0SN: DF2FR, DL4KM, DL7JAN, DL9US, DJ8WK, DL1A: DJ6ZM, DO4DXA, DF5UG, DL1MFJ, DL1DAW: DL1DAW, DF7DJ, DL5YAD, DL1Z: DF3KV, DL3NDU: DL3NDU, DL1NUA, DL5L: DG0OKW, DL5T: DK2ZO, DM3W: DH2UHF DO5WW, DM4D: DL1BUG, DM5G: DK7AS DM3BJ, DP3A: DF9IX, DL6IAK, DM9CM, DL7JAN, DG2BMN, DK2GZ, DP9M: DL1EBG, DB1EPO, DL3EW, DQ4T: DL2YOU, DL4ALL, DJ9KM, DK9VZ, DF7ZS, DR1A: DB6JG, DJ6ET, DJ7EG, DJ7EO, DK2OY, DL6FBL, DL8WPX, PA1TT, DR4G: DJ0GM, DR5O: DK5EZ, DL8DAW, DL8EAQ, DK8EY, DK4TP, DG4EG, DR7C: DL3MBG, DF7RG, DL2RMC, EF1W: EA1WS, EG5S: EA5DFV, HP1WW: OH0XX, II1M: IK1SOW, J3/DL7VOG: DL7VOG, J43J: DJ5JH, JA3YPL: JJ3TBB, K1TTT: N7ZG, K3CR: LZ4AX, K3DI: K3DI W3UL, KC1XX: OE6MBG, KD4D: K3MIM, KD4D, N3HBX, NA3D, KM4M: W3BP, LN1G: LA1BNA, LN9Z: LA9HW, LY9Y: LY2CY, MD0LON: DF1LON, NO2R: NO2R K2NG, OH2K: OH2LZC, OL9R: OK1WMV,OK3RM, OM3X: OM7CW, OM7ANB, OQ5M: ON5ZO, PJ2F: LY4F, PS2T: PY5EG, PY2NY, PU5OGE, PU2RSD, PY2EQ, PY2WS, RG3K: UA3QDX, RG9A: UA9AM, RK2FXG: RA2FB, RK3QWW: RW3QO, RW3QTH, RK9CWW: RA9CMO RU9CD UA9CIR, RK9CZO: RU9CI, UA9CTT, RM3F: UA3DPX, RN9S: RW9SW, RX9SN, UA4LCQ/9, RT9S: UA9SP, SD3A: SM3FJF, SI3A: SM3LIV, SO6X: SP6IXF, SO9Q: SP9QMP, SP9H, SP9XCN, SQ9JKS, SQ9JKW, TE2M: TI2KAC, UR4U: UR4UDI, UU5A: UU2JQ UU0JX, UU7J: UU0JM, UZ4E: UR4EN, UR7EU, UV5EOZ, VE3SY: DK9TN VE3DZ VE3EY VE3SY, VE3UTT: W1AJT, VE6AO: VA6JWT, W4MYA: K2WK W4MYA WK4Y, YL7X: YL2LY, YR1A: YO3JR, YT5A: YT1AD, YT3W, YU1AU, YU7AJM: VLADO, YT7TA, YT7XT, YU7OI, YU7ONE, YU7SLO, YU7TA, YU7W: YT7AW, Z36N: Z32PT, ZL6QH: ZL1AZE ZL2BSJ ZL2TTS, ZX5J: PP5AMP PP5FMM PP5NW PP5TR IV3NVN.

457 456

4L4WW: Great contest, thank you! 4X0T: Hello to all tnx fer QSO and sorry fer a bad Condx cu in 2008. 7N2UQC: I was able to enjoy this contest. Tnx for a fine contest again. Rig: IC-706, ANT: Dipole DE0MBS: Operated with two radios for the first time trying to get some practice for SO2R as DL8MBS. Trying to listen to two running stations simultaneously can be rewarding and puzzling simultaneously ;-) DG5YHZ: Nice Contest. DK6XZ: It was great pleasure to work in WAEDC after more than 18 years. Thank you all guys that have answered to my call! Equipment: YAESU FT1000 MP, 100 W PEP + DXSR-VFD4 (Allband vertical Windom) on 18 m/4 m flatroof edge + UcxLog 6.11 on TOSHIBA PIII Satellite. 73! DL1A: First attempt with new crew. We had a lot of fun. See you in next contest. DL1DAW: The WAE is my favorite contest although we experienced the worst condx since my first participation in 1998! However, we had a lot of fun with some artwork next to us and the drunken young fire-fighters after midnight. My special thanks go to Bernd, DO1BMS; Michael, DL5YAD and Herbert, DF7DJ who spent all the nights with me! I look forward to experiencing better condx next year. cuagn and vy 73 es 55 de Achim. DL6MHW: A short time entry with a lot of fun, especially with QTCs. This contest was the first with the new automatic antenna switch based on the so2r board of DK3GI (tnx). Hope to have a complete so2r setup (with 100 watts) in WAE RTTY. EB2CYQ: My first WAE SSB and only a problem, the QTCs and the off times - Fun EI4DJB: 15m openings with QSB on Sunday 090907 FY1FL: First participation to the WAE. Only short period of time was available. So not so much QSOs. But lot of fun!!! GM7TUD: first time I have tried to take Qtcs so probably made a few mistakes. IK0XBX: NICE CONTEST!!! LX7I: This year again propagation was not so good but

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Many thanks to the following stations submitting checklogs: 4Z5OZ, CU2JT, DF1IAQ, DG1BQC, DK6XZ, DL1DTC, DL2IH, DL4OCE, DL5MG, DL8QS, EA1EBJ, EA1FD, EI4DJB, F8DBF, G7RTI, HA1SN,
Worked All Europe DX Contest (WAEDC) RTTY
Single Operator High Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Single Operator Low Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Multi Operator Asia Europe North America South America SWL Category Asia Europe ZS2EZ RG9A UW8I K4GMH 9M6XRO LT0H 5C5W UN7PBY UY8IF 8P2K DV1JM PY2NY RN9S Z360M K4WW CW2C UA0-103-16 DE0MBS

AB4SF W4LSC WA4OSD N4LF WD4LBR AD4YQ KM4RK WA4CYP AI4SX K4WW KZ4V
Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Multi Multi

289165

United States Call Area 5 N5PU High 156156 AA5VU High 30340 W5DG High 25098 K5ZG High 10600 KD5LNO Low 179634 K5WW Low 8900 AC5ZS Low 6825 KD5J Low 2080 United States Call Area 6 K6HGF High 415584 N6QQ High 272742 W6OQI High 166828 W6UB High 37408 KJ6RA High 30380 N6AR High 19539 AI6O High 15318 N6KW High 9118 W6SA High 8181 WA6BOB High 7221 NC6P Low 21593 W6RQ Low 7138 United States Call Area 7 W7QQQ High 366876 W7VXS High 55510 W7WHY High 45108 N7MQ High 44232 K0YQ/7 High 8050 W7ZR Low 356832 W7MRC Low 64592 United States Call Area 8 AA8LL High 506088 W8CAR High 12096 AJ1M/8 High 1870 WW8Q Low 96635 WB8MKH Low 17685 United States Call Area 9 KE9I High 59075 WA9IVH High 8134 W9ILY Low 111390 N9ID Low 6138 Uruguay CW2C Venezuela YV6BTF YV5AAX

105 52

17864 4350

171 50

143 73

151 83

1382325
New Zealand Call Area 2 ZM2B High 91791 Oman A45WD (OP: YO9HP) Philippines DU1IVT DV1JM Saudi Arabia HZ1IK 7Z1SJ Singapore 9V1UV

1062024

16470 180465

122 272

135 265

116315 399594

354 512

187 905

215 282

247 56

223 10

237 93

1108728
South Africa Call Area 1 ZS1JY Low
South Africa Call Area 2 ZS2EZ High 218160 South Korea HL5YI
UK Bases on Cyprus ZC4LI High

1655599

United States Call Area 0 K0JJR High K0COP High K0TG High W0LSD Low K0RC Low W0QQG Low

37600 31164

179 159

200 196

386074 354347

566 437

392 1124

403 227

Many thanks to the following stations submitting checklogs: DF1HF, DL4KUG, LA6BNA, RV3DBK, DG7LAE, DL1THB, DL1WE, DL2RUG, DL8UFO, DM5GI, HA1DAE, HA1SN, IV3JCC, N6CVA, PA3EBP, RA4NAJ, RC4Q, RU3EJ, RV3LO, SP5XO, UA6HO, UW5U, YL2NN.
5C5W: CN8KD, 6H1ZVO: XE1ZVO, 8P2K: 8P6SH, A45WD: YO9HP, AM7ABV: EC7ABV, AN5CNK: EB5CNK, AO5FL: EA5FL, CW2C: IK1PMR K2LEO CX5BW, D2NX: JM1CAX, DD0DRK: DL4HTK DO9AM, DD5A: DK3RA, DE2SAT: DG0OKW, DF5A: DL1THB,DL7FBG,DL5CG,DL9GTB,DL9GMN, DG7RO: DG7RO, DL2MLU, DL2YL, DL5NDX, DL6RAI, DO5ALX, DD1LD, DJ4MZ, DK0IU: DC2LS DG4BCL DG5HFS DK1IP DJ4KW DK9HE, DK3W: DL3ABL, DK5M: DL5AOJ, DL8AWJ, DL150HZ: DL5JS DL5KUT DL6EZ, DL75ERL: DL4NN, DN0UKW: DO9PL, DP4N: DL4NER, DP9A: DG1HWM, DJ7TO, DK4WA, DL1PE, DL8ULF, DR1A: DJ6ET, DJ7EG, DL6FBL, DL8WPX, DR5X: DL8LAS, G4B: G6OKU,M0OKT, JA6ZPR: JH6JSR, JJ1ZEJ: JF1RYU, K4WW: K4WW KB4DOV, KH6/N0CO: N0CO, KM4M: W3BP, KZ4V: KZ4V, NQ4U, LT0H: LU3HY, LY6A: LY2BM, LZ8A: LZ2BE, LZ9R: LZ3YY, NP3D/W1: @K1TTT, OF8GZN: OH8GZN, OG0Z: OH3BHL, OH8AA: OH8KVY, OK1KSL: OK1AHG OK1AHJ OK1FAK OK1IVE, PX8X: PT8DX, RC4Q: UA4RC, RD3A: RD3AF, RG9A: UA9AM, RK9CZO: RX9COD, RV9CTD, UA9CTT, RN9S: RW9SW, RX9SN, S50G: S57AW S58P S58V, S55T: S56M, SP6KCN: SP6AXW, SP9KDA: SP6GCU SP6-8522, SX1L: SV1JCZ, UT0U: UT5UDX, UT2M: UR2ML, UT9FJ: UT9FJ,UR5FEL,UT0FT, UW2N: UT9NA, UW8I: UT2IZ, UY7C: UR3CMA, UZ4E: UR7EU, UT5ERP, UV5EOZ, VA2UP: VE2FBD, VE2CWT: VE2FU, VE3UTT: W1AJT, VE7HL: VE7HL VE7CFD VA7CAE, W7MRC: NG7Z, Z360M: Z32ID, Z35T, Z35X, Z36N, Z36W

EA8BEX: A very good contest. My conditions: FT2000, 100w, vertical antenna for 10 to 80m and N1MM Logger software. F6IFY: Due to a very busy weekend, only 1h30 operating, a pity because WAE with QTCs exchange is one of my favorite and RTTY rules are the best, everybody can work everybody. I hope, one day, this rule will also apply in SSB and CW. 73, Philippe G0AZS: Thanks for a great contest. Nice to work RTTY again! AA8LL: I still have QTC for you! U-BOOT called me! Outstanding! DE1NCH: A lot of fun, again! cu next year. W3ZF: What a HOOT! Using good ole WF1B software, Heathkit SS-9000, MFJ-1278B, Compaq 286 Laptop. But is time to upgrade software, will miss workhorse. F1B program :-( Glad to have participated in this well organized well documented contest. W4OJC: Wish contest is less hours. W4ZE: I really enjoy this contest and the QTC exchange. WB8MKH: So Many 20+ signals and very few answered repeated calls? Are they running auto CQ or have weak receivers? 9M6XRO: Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP Transceiver and Quadra Linear. Power 400w. Lightning Bolt 6-band 2ele Quad. Butternut HF2V Vert. Both up 27m. I put a lot of hours in during the contest which is not reflected in my score unfortunately! The band condx made it a real struggle at times. I worked nothing on 80m (QRN) or 10m (propagation). I make QSY from 15m to 10m with a few JA stations but we never made it on ten. Strangely enough I heard strong Asian FM pirates on 10m with the birdies from their over-driven linear swishing across the band. 40m had a different problem. Over-the-horizon radar from the North at S9+30 going on for hours on end. When a certain government radar is jamming the band what hope is there of eliminating the Asian FM pirates on 10 or the USB pirates on 40? Very little, I would say. Anyhow, many thanks for organizing the FB Contest. Despite all the aggro, I hope to be back next year!! ZS2EZ: First time in WAE for me - really great contest! Took a while to get used to QTC, but eventually got the hang of it and really enjoyed myself. Will be back next year!! F5RD: My sixth WAEDC Contest and the best. Good conditions on 80 m and 40 m (80 % QSOs on these two bands). I think that conditions were also good on 20 m and 15 m, but not much time to work this contest Saturday and Sunday afternoon. I didnt tryby 10 m, but I believe that the band was closed. Thanks to all who worked me. See you again in 2008. 73 Bernard. GU0SUP: An excellent contest, and its got to be my favorite of the year. Good to see fewer and fewer saying SRI NO QTC too. Thanks to all at DARC for this great contest. ZC4LI: Thanks to all concerned in running the contest. I had my usual problems with the software for the Qtcs so I have sent them separately. I will have to get some new software for next year. 73 Steve. YO6BHN: See you next year. VA7PX: Gained a lot of new contest skills in this contest! Great fun and good propagation here for a change. Will exchange QTCs next year. N2WK: Always enjoy the QTC part of this contest. UY7C: First time effort, immediate conditions, but lots of fun! PA0MIR: Hope I will be able to use QTC traffic next year. Was too hard for me and had no time to test software. Sorry. 8P2K: Very tough conditions and even tougher on the transatlantic path. Thanks to the stations who worked me and especially those who took or sent QTCs. Work also contributed to missing Saturdays EU opening. I was also a bit disappointed at not improving on last years score, but it was a definite challenge without 10m opening. Congrats to all.

2.268.450 296.142 2.581.648 155.236 775.008 96.640
Print your own certificate Your contest certificate comes as PDF file. You can print it on your own. Get it at http://www.waedc.de
Worked All Germany Contest (WAG)
The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC) has the honour to invite amateurs all over the world to participate in the anual Worked All German Contest, Klaus Voigt, DL1DTL
1. Contest periods: October, third full weekend, 1500 UTC Saturday to 1459 UTC Sunday 2008: 18./19. October 2. Modes and bands: SSB, CW: 3,5 - 7 - 14 - 21 - 28 MHz According to IARU Region I regulations and from experience in 2006 to reduce interference with the participants of JOTA contest operation is not allowed in the following contest-free sections: 80m: CW - 3560 - 3800 kHz, SSB kHz 40m: SSB kHz 20m: CW - 14060 - 14350 kHz, SSB kHz und kHz 15m: SSB kHz 10m: SSB kHz 3. Categories: - Single operator, CW, low power - Single operator, CW, high power - Single operator, mixed, low power - Single operator, mixed, high power - Single operator, mixed, QRP - Multi operator - SWL, single operator Output power: QRP = up to 5 watts, low power = up to 100 watts, high power = more than 100 watts For Multi operator band changes are allowed every ten minutes; Exception: working of new multiplier (other transmitters may be used in parallel to the main station to work multipliers on other bands, this means, several signals may be on the air on different bands at the same time). Note: DX cluster support is allowed for all categories. Note: Only one signal permitted at any time (exception: multi operator). 4. Exchange: A contest QSO can only be established between non-German and German stations and also between German stations. Non-German stations give the usual RS/RST + serial number. German stations give RS/RST + DOK (local area code). If the station worked does not send a serial number, log the contact with number 000. A station may be worked once per band per mode. 5. Multipliers: The multiplier for Non-German stations is determined by the number of German districts worked on each band regardless of mode. The German district is indicated by the first letter of the DOK. From special DOKs (two or more letter/figure or figure/letter combinations) only the first letter counts. Thus a maximum of 26 multipliers per band is possible (letters A.Z). German stations use the current DXCC-entity-/WAE-country-list. Each entity/country counts one multiplier per band regardless of mode. 6. Scoring: Each complete exchange counts 3 points for non-German stations. German stations get one point for QSO with an other German station, 3 points for an European station and 5 points for a DX-station. The final score is computed by multiplying the total number of QSO points by the sum of multipliers from all bands. 7. Contest awards: Certificates will be awarded to every participant as PDF-file for selfprinting.
8. Disqualification: Violation of the rules of the contest or unsportsmanlike conduct will be deemed sufficient cause for disqualification. The decisions of the contest-committee are final. 9. Logs: Logs need to be sent in STF or Cabrillo-Format to the following E-MailAddress: wag@dxhf.darc.de Be sure to put the station callsign in the subject of each message. By submitting the log, the participant claims to fully accept the rules of the contest. 10. Special regulations for SWLs: All SWLs get one point (SSB) or three points (CW) for logging each new German station with the sent RS/RST + DOK and the call of the station working with the German station. The multiplier is determined by the sum of German districts (first letter of DOK - see point 5) heard on each band. Each German station may be counted once in SSB and once in CW on each band. 11. Deadline for log entries: November 20th 12. Addresses: for log: for questions: wag@dxhf.darc.de wag-info@dxhf.darc.de

Will try to work in WAG every year! Age: 22, ham since 1998, ex: UR5GFO. We dont know exactly if SP6LV was the oldest participant: Since 1957 SP2LV, from 1997 SP6LV, age 76 because the rules demands no age. However, the WAG Contest is fun for young AND old. Weather and contest The weather influenced the contest as well. DF2CK experienced increasing QRN on sunday due to freezing rain ruined some runs on 15m and 20m. Around 1400 the QRN was S9+: no reception - QRT. The equipment and WinTest had no problems and there was a good participation of all. Thanks to everyone and congratulations to the winners. DO9ST had problems as well: Nice contest, I am always portable. Bad weather with snow. DB1BMN wrote: I took part again after a long period of time and it is still fun! Conditions were fair, heard many stations from the US but

Antennas of DK0FR

Especially the free UCXLog and SuperDuper initiated many comments: DR3R: I logged the whole contest with UCX-LOG version 6.14 Beta 35 without any problems!, DQ1V: Many thanks for UCX-software - great., PA0WKI: Using SD logging program without any trouble, GI4AAM: SD excellent for this contest, MU0GSY: Used SD for contest logging. Thanks for ufb contest and QSOs! Thanks for ufb software, dr OM Paul (SuperDuper)! writes Dieter, DK5ZX. LU4MHQ is satisfied as well: Super Duper is the best support in contest like VK4TT: Gday to all Ops in the contest. Used SD programme by EI5DI worked very FB and YE1AA: I used SD for logging - its great. But also the newcomer within the contest logging programs gets good notes. Mirko, DJ1AA, states:.I like it very much to work this contest with my new contest software 28
WIN-Test. I think it is a very good deal for all the contests in the future. The OPs of DP4D/DK0RE are the same opinion:. this was our first HF contest as DP4D (only VHF until now). We had to test very much including a logging program. We chose Win-Test and were not disappointed yet. But not everything is sunshine and roses. W7YS had some problems: My NA program failed and also RA9FTM wrote: Fine contest! But. the software didnt carefully count multipliers. The exasperating problem with the long special DOKs was very annoying also for DL0KB: The old problem with the latest HAMWAG program. The long special DOKs were truncated and I had to re-edit all of them manually!
has confirmed their first upload with a reception report. For example DO1PPS writes: Hmmmmm well, the log robot thinks my log is not valid because no category has been chosen but I entered as single operator <100W. What has happened? The DARC Committee for DX and HF Contesting decided to standardize the description of the entry categories for all of its contests. The robot simplifies the registration of the logs and helps the contest organizers with routine jobs while handling the logs. This includes the check of the log headers and thus also the category. The log robot gives you hints how to correct your log for a successful second submission. No manual handling is needed for this process. If you read the robot message carefully you should have found some discrepancies in your log and in most cases you should have get a positive confirmation after the second submission. The critics concerning missing DOKs in STF files should have been eliminated after reading the robot message. The field SPECIFIC is reserved for the DOK. The German programmers already reacted and implemented this speciality in their programs. However, the participant still is in the responsibility to make the necessary entries.

Eric, SA1A with second OP Embla, 15 month
A few controversial comments reached us on that topic. SE5S wrote: A few contest QSOs in JOTA weekend. Happy to give some points :-) or DR3R: It was even possible to work some JOTA stations! 40m was too much crowded! and DL3ARK: Joined the contest as single op again after a few years. Unfortunately the band restrictions on 40m SSB were.crap! On 7090 kHz there was only JOTA and nothing else. DF5A comments: We had only half the crew, one radio and no packet cluster - but logged 1000 QSOs! Despite the solar cycle minimum the WAG was quite good. unbelievable that some people wanted to abolish this worldwide contest. This point should be disposed now once and for all and also the Jamboree friends should have recognized that we need to co-operate on the bands. Different categories for everyone? Several different comments were made on new categories. DH6DAO thinks: I have a proposal for new categories: With or without beam antenna, hihi. or RZ9OW: For the future I think that organizers of the WAG contest should separate all participants of the competition in modes (SSB, CW) and bands (10m, 15m, 20m, 40m, 80m). These rules mix SSB and CW, night and day bands. It is not correctly. PA0IJM writes: I dont understand the category. There is a Single opr. CW
Contest is not everything! But there are also other things in the life of a radio amateur which limit the time to take part in a contest actively. Those contestants had their fun as well during the WAG. DL2IAN comments: The contest was nice and the first test for my new TA63M antenna. Superb during the little time I have been active. DO1VK writes: It was much fun again. Unfortunately I could join only for a few hours. and OP4A: Due to QRL I could hand out only a few points. See you next year. Michael, DL6MHW, writes: I have been on the radio only for a short time. And there was another sport event on my agenda as well. Some statistics The 1145 submitted logs contained more than 308.000 QSOs (35.000 more than 2006) made during the WAG Contest 2007. 216.500 QSOs (70,16%) of them were cross-checked electronically which is quite an impressive percentage. We could confirm almost 90.000 additional QSOs after another comparison of the logs. Remaining were about 2.400 uniques (callsigns which appear in only one log). Thus you can say that more than 99% of the QSOs during the WAG Contest were verified and only a small number of QSOs is arguable. 7143 different callsigns (compared to 6842 in 2006) from 156 entities (2006: 149,