WRTC Africa: Top Russian DX Score Keeps EA9LZ in Top Spot; EA8ZS, EA8OM Lag Behind

By Jamie Dupree NS3T  radio-sport.net 
Posted January 12, 2008

Taking home the high score from the 2008 Russian DX contest, Jorge Taboada Pareja EA9LZ expanded his lead in the race for the one African team leader slot in WRTC Russia qualifying.

The updated unofficial radio-sport.net results include final numbers from both the CQ WPX Contest and the Russian DX test from 2008.

Pareja took 728 points from the RDXC, the highest score of any African operator, lengthening his lead from 786 to 1,514 points over Manuel De Aguilar EA8ZS.

Five operators from the Canary Islands (EA8) make up second through sixth place in the WRTC Africa standings. They are then followed by eight operators from the Madeira Islands (CT3.)

At stake is one team leader slot from Africa in the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships in Russia.

Here are the top five operators from Africa as found by radio-sport.net. You can see a full spreadsheet link at the end of this data.

• EA9LZ 4,298 - (6 scores)

• EA8ZS 2,784 - (4 scores)

• EA8OM 2,647 - (8 scores)

• EA8CAC 2,642 - (6 scores)

• EA8BEX 2,450 - (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for Africa.

There is only one qualifying event left for stations in Africa, but results must still come in from six contests that were held in 2008: WPX CW, IARU, WAE CW, WAE SSB and both legs of CQ WW DX.

The unofficial results produced here by radio-sport.net include the final published results of the 2006 and 2007 IARU, the 2006 and 2007 WAE CW and WAE SSB, 2006 the CQ WW CW and SSB contests, 2007 ARRL DX SSB & CW, 2007 & 2008 Russian DX, 2007 CQ WPX SSB and CW contests, the 2007 CQ WW SSB and CW tests, the 2008 ARRL DX Contests and the 2008 CQ WPX SSB.

(Radio-sport.net has tried to be as accurate as possible. If you find a mistake, or that your score line is missing a contest result, please send us an email and we will be happy to check and correct the numbers.)

The qualifying rules allow you to submit your top eight scores from certain contests. No more than four may be from multi-operator efforts.

You will note that some scores in the spreadsheets have been colored in. All multi-ops are noted with a yellow background. Scores from a contest operation outside of your home WRTC region are colored in blue.

A score that was both outside your home region and from a multi-op has a purple color.