WRTC Asia: No Major Changes From WAE CW; JH4UYB, UA9CLB, UN9LW Keep Regional Leads

By Jamie Dupree NS3T  radio-sport.net 
Posted January 30, 2009

The results of the 2008 WAE CW Contest may have solidified the chances of several Asian operators to qualify for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships in Russia.

In the all-Japan regional, AS #1, no one is going to catch Masaki Masa Okano JH4UYB, who is steamrolling his way to the top spot in Japanese qualifying.

While Okano did not score any points in WAE CW, he still leads second place JF1SQC by almost 3200 points, as Okano was the first to qualify for a team leader slot.

JH4UYB also has the most points of any operator in the world in WRTC qualifying with 7,100.

Over in AS #2, Vadim Ovasiannikov UA9CLB remains in the lead of that qualifying region, with Yuri Kurinyi UA9AM in a strong second position, 945 points behind.

Both men had the top two scores in the WAE CW, as they moved further ahead of the field. Ovasiannikov has the second most points in world qualifying at 6,910.

In region AS #3, which comprises all areas in Asia outside of Japan and Asiatic Russia, it was much the same story, as the top two operators in that region also used the WAE CW to move further ahead in the battle for three qualifying slots.

Vladimir Vinichenko UN9LW saw his lead reduced to 519 points over Steve Hodgson ZC4LI, as Hodgson posted his eighth qualifying score overall.

The third qualifying position is still in the hands of Champ E21EIC, who has a just under 500 point edge on fourth place 9K2RR.

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)

• JF1SQC 3,904 - (7 scores)

• JR7OMD 3,443 - (5 scores)

• JI3ERV 3,420 - (4 scores)

• JA7DLE 3,200 - (7 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for AS #1

AS #2 is Asiatic Russia.

• UA9CLB 6,910 - (8 scores)

• UA9AM 5,965 - (8 scores)

• UA9CDC 5,228 - (8 scores)

• UA9PC 5,120 - (7 scores)

• UA9CDV 4,781- (7 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for AS #2

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

• UN9LW 5,481 - (8 scores)

• ZC4LI 4,962 - (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.