Fortunately, the WRTC 2006 organizing committee was not conservative, and modified the WRTC rules, as used during the previous events. The new, less restrictive rules allowed technical innovations, which under the old rules would not have been allowed. The result was, that not only a team's experience and tactical cleverness was highlighted, but also their ability to use technical knowledge to come up with a good technology concept as part of the contest stategy. This broadened the scope of the WRTC contest and made Brazil more interesting.
Unfortunately, however, the rule changes were officially announced just four months before the WRTC event, which left us with only a short period for developing and producing the large amount of hardware required for the implementation of our ideas.

The door for real innovation was now open

The new rules allowed for two operators, two receivers but only for one transmitter, one PA and one antenna for any given band. What the rules did allow was almost unlimited station automation.