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To: Mr. Rainer Floesser, DL5NBZ
Chairman of IARU - Region 1 ARDF Working Group
21 June 2002
Report from Panayot Danev, LZ1US
President of Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs and Chairman of the International Jury of 3rd EYAC Nessebar, Bulgaria, 10 - 14 June 2002
Dear Mr. Chairman,
The 3rd European Youth ARDF Championship (EYAC) was held in Nessebar, Bulgaria from 10 to 14 of June 2002. The Organising Committee has arranged accommodation and full board in the three star Hotel Pelican with extra facilities, including swimming pool, sauna and beautiful garden in the backyard just over the seacoast and beach. Eight societies from IARU - Region 1 (in alphabetical order):
Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs (BFRA) - Bulgaria
Czech Radio Club (CRC) - Czech Republic
Deutscher Amateur Radio-Club (DARC) - Germany
Magyar Radioamator Szovetseg (MRASz) -
Hungary Polski Zwiazek Krotkofalowcow (PZK) - Poland
Savez Radioamatera Jugoslavije (SRJ) - Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
Soyuz Radiolyubitelei Rossii (SRR) - Russia
Union Amateur Radio of Kazakhstan* (UARL) - Kazakhstan *Non-member of IARU
have registered 11 teams and 43 competitors (24 boys/category M15 and 19 girls/category W15). Mr. Krzysztof Slomczynski, SP5HS, former ARDF Working Group Chairman presented as an honored guest. Mr. Laszlo Weisz, HA3NU, HST Working Group Chairman, but also keen ARDF-er, also presented as a MRASz Team Leader. The International Jury has been composed at its first meeting opened on 11 June at 14:00 as follows:
Chairman - Panayot Danev, LZ1US, International Category Referee
Secretary - Georgi Vodenicharov,
LZ1ZF Siting Referee - Roussko Russev, LZ1RT,
International Category Referee Representatives of the participating societies (being also Team Leaders):
Viktoria Tzenkova, LZ1VVC - BFRA
Miroslav Vlach, OK1UMY - CRC
Wolfgang Boehringer, DL9TE - DARC
Laszlo Weisz, HA3NU - MRASz
Adam Dyrka, SP2EDA - PZK
Tjesimir Tomecak - SRJ
Sergey Knyazev - SRR
Alexander Kochergin, UN7JR - UARL
The International Jury kindly asked SP5HS to take part in the meetings of the Jury. SP5HS agreed and expressed his thanks. The International Jury approved the list of referees, proposed by the host society BFRA, as follows:
Technical Referee - Viktor Tzenkov, LZ3NN
Referee at the starting point - Ralitza Vodenicharova, LZ1JO
Referee at TX 1 - Hristo Dimitrov, LZ1XA
Referee at TX 2 - Hristo Garipov, LZ2CT
Referee at TX 3 - Krassimir Russev, LZ1RTK
Referee at TX 4 - Nikolay Proychev, LZ1NB
Referee at TX 5 - Assen Tomov, LZ3BA
Referee at finishing point - Stanimir Minev, LZ1STC
Referee at the monitoring - Kostadin Evstatiev, LZ1DJ
The International Jury approved time limit 120 minutes for both competitions, approved transmitters to be omitted per each category - TX 3 for M15 and TX 2 for W15 for both competitions, executed the drawing procedure and approved the starting sequence for both days. All the decisions of the International Jury have been taken unanimously. The first meeting was closed at 15:30.
The opening ceremony was held on 11 June at 18:00 on Mesembria Square in the Old Town of Nessebar. After a national folklore presentation Mrs. Shterionova, Secretary of Municipality of Nessebar welcomed the participants. Mr. Panayot Danev, LZ1US, President of BFRA on behalf of the hosting society wished all competitors joy, pleasant staying in Nessebar and sport success. He read addresses to the participants from Mr. Louis Van de Nadort, PA0LOU, Chairman of IARU - Region 1 EC and Mr. Rainer Floesser, DL5NBZ, Chairman of IARU - Region 1 ARDF WG. Finally Mrs. Shterionova declared 3rd EYAC open.
The competitions were held on 12 and 13 June some 25 km away of Nessebar, both days in different forest areas. Everything has been run smoothly, strictly according to the New Rules, Appendix 6. An electronic time keeping and special computer software were used at the finishing line. The passage of the competitors through each TX was displayed in real time on a special board at the finishing area. Mr. Slomczynski, SP5HS was permitted to inspect the competition areas and he reported that he has not seen any violations of the Rules. The final results have been given to the members of the International Jury (Team Leaders) just 5 minutes after finishing the last competitor. The Jury met both days at the finishing area, took into consideration that there were no written nor oral protests, and unanimously approved the Official Results respectively at 12:25 on 12 June and at 12:10 on 13 June. Both days the Official Results have been displayed in Hotel Pelican at 15:00. At 16:00 on 13 June the Team Leaders received their Official copies of the Results, maps of the competition areas with position of the TXs and special certificates from the hosting society.
The awarding and closing ceremony took place on 13 June at 19:00 on Mesembria Square. Individuals and teams, which have won first, second and third place in each competition, received gold, silver and bronze medals, certificates and gifts. Mrs. Shterionova, Mr. Slomczynski, SP5HS, Mr. Weisz, HA3NU and Mr. Russev, LZ1RT hung up the medals. Mr. Tzenkov, LZ3NN gave special commemorative medals to the honored guests and the Team Leaders and Mr. Vodenicharov, LZ1ZF gave gifts to the youngest boy Axel Boehringer (GER) and youngest girl Tereza Skladankova (CZE).
Finally Mr. Danev, LZ1US awarded special BFRA Cups to societies placed first, second and third in the overall classification and declared 3rd EYAC closed. In the evening a Hamfest for the adults and a discotheque for the youngsters have been organised in Hotel Pelican. Dear Mr. Chairman, As a President of BFRA and Chairman of the International Jury I would like to conclude this report with my sincere thanks to all the participants and all the organisers of this remarkable event. Finally I would like to share the words of the honored guest Mr. Slomczynski, SP5HS, sent to me after his return back home: "I consider the Youth Championship in Nessebar as a very fine and successful event. All was working like the Swiss watch, the courses on 144 and 3.5 MHz were fine".
Sincerely yours, Panayot Danev, LZ1US
List of participants and results of 3rd EYAC (PDF-File 1185kB)
Maps of the competitions - 800 kB
eyac2002.webbg.com and www.bfra.org
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