WRTC Asia: JH4UYB Solidifies Spot In 2010 WRTC in Russia; UA9CLB, UN9LW Keep Regional Leads

By Jamie Dupree NS3T  radio-sport.net 
Posted January 12, 2009

Once again registering the top single operator scores from Japan, Masaki Masa Okano is steamrolling his way to the top spot in Japanese qualifying for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships in Russia.

Okano extended his lead by taking the top regional score in both the 2008 Russian DX Contest and the 2008 WPX SSB test, giving him 7,100 points in the AS #1 region, which covers all of Japan. JH4UYB has won top points in four CQ WW contests, four ARRL DX tests, three WPX contests and two Russian DX tests.

He leads his closest pursuer JR7OMD by over 3,600 points and has the highest qualifying score of any operator in the world at this point..

Over in AS #2, Vadim Ovasiannikov UA9CLB extended his lead over Yuri Kurinyi UA9AM by registering a top score in the 2008 Russian DX Contest. Two qualifying spots are available from t

In region AS #3, which comprises all areas in Asia outside of Japan and Asiatic Russia, three spots are available and they remained with the same three ops as the last radio-sport.net update.

Vladimir Vinichenko UN9LW saw his lead trimmed to 888 points over Steve Hodgson ZC4LI, as Hodgson racked up a top low power score in the Russian DX test.

Still in third is Champ E21EIC, who did not gain points from either of the contests added to the qualifying scores spreadsheets.

Here are the top five operators in each Asian region as found by radio-sport.net. A full spreadsheet link is also available.

AS #1 is Japan.

• JH4UYB 7,100 - (8 scores)

• JR7OMD 3,443 - (5 scores)

• JI3ERV 3,420 - (4 scores)

• JF1SQC 3,365 - (6 scores)

• JE8KKX 3,107 - (4 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for AS #1

AS #2 is Asiatic Russia.

• UA9CLB 6,730 - (8 scores)

• UA9AM 5,757 - (8 scores)

• UA9CDC 4,615 - (8 scores)

• RU9WX 4,254- (6 scores)

• UA9PC 3,684 - (5 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for AS #2

AS #3 has all of Asia outside of JA and UA9/UA0.

• UN9LW 5,349 - (8 scores)

• ZC4LI 4,461 - (8 scores)

• E21EIC 3,780 - (8 scores)

• 9K2RR 3,291 - (5 scores)

• UN7LZ 3,204 - (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for AS #3

There is only one qualifying event left for stations in Asia, 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.