The official program
The Swedish team attended the following program.
- Arrivals and registrations.
- Training on both bands, opening ceremony.
- 144 MHz Competitions and awarding ceremony.
- Free day, excursion to Passau.
- 3.5 MHz Competitions and awarding ceremony, dinner and hamfest.
- Departure of participants.
Flight to München
Hans travels together with Leif and Jan by flight to München.
Hans gets the journey paid by the company. At the airport he hires a car and drives the 140 km to the competition area in Sankt Englmar, Bayern.
The Swedish team consists of 9 runners from Stockholm, Västerås and Örebro.
Category Call sign ------------------------------------------ WOM Birgitta Asklund SM4OWY Örebro SEN Bo Söderquist - Stockholm SEN Bengt Evertsson SM4VMU Örebro SEN Magnus Holmberg - Örebro OT Gunnar Svensson - Stockholm OT Hans Sundgren SM5SVM Västerås OT Jan Palmquist SM5FUG Västerås VET PA Nordwaeger SM0BGU Stockholm VET Leif Zettervall SM5EZM Västerås ------------------------------------------ SEN = 20–39 years OT = 40–54 years VET = 55– years
Hans is 40 years old and thereby one of the youngest in his category 40-54 years.
The hotel
The 248 competition participants from 31 countries are housed in the Predigtstuhl Apart-Hotel in Sankt Englmar.
Testing the equipment
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Bavarian Forest [Bayerischer Wald]
The Bavarian Forest runs along the Czech border and is continued on the Czech side.
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Opening ceremony
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Competition 144 MHz
This is Hans' first world championship competition and he lacks experience on how his new 144 MHz receiver behaves in international competitions.
At the start location he cannot hear any transmitter! So he runs up to the highest top and from there he can hear some transmitters very weak. It seems that the sensitivy of the receiver is not adequate.
In the end Hans manages to visit all 4 posts, but it takes too long time. The maximum time limit is 140 minutes and Hans finishes after 145 minutes. Therefore he doesn't get any position in the result list. In the category OT there are 18 other runners that also exceeds the time limit and 9 runners that cannot find any post.
Competition 3,5 MHz
The earphone cable breaks and Hans has to use a spare one. Despite that he succeeds to visit all 4 posts and finishes 11 of 69 participants.
The friends
Hans travels with his friends from Västerås; Leif and Jan.
Action photos
There are no action photos taken of Hans during the competitions. Instead, Leif and Hans takes some photos when back in Västerås.
Articles in local paper
The local paper has a small article before and after the competitions.
Hans writes an article in Swedish
Part of the cost for Hans' travel is paid by the company in which he is employed. The deal is that he afterwards writes an article in the internal company magazine, in Swedish.
Photo information
Photographer
Hans Sundgren and others.
Film
Neg 35 mm Fuji G-200.
Digitalization
Hans Sundgren
Photographer
Jan Palmquist and others.
Camera
Chinon CE-4
Film
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Digitalization 1
Images on 3,5" disk 1997-09
Digitalization 2
Hans Sundgren