WRTC Asia: JH4UYB Clinches All-Japan Regional; First to Qualify for 2010 WRTC in Russia

By Jamie Dupree NS3T  radio-sport.net 
Posted October 18, 2008

With a pair of regional wins in last year's CQ WW DX Contests, Masaki Masa Okano JH4UYB has become the first ham to lock up a spot in the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships in Russia.

Okano nabbed 950 points in both CQ WW SSB and CW, giving him 6,810 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, two WPX contests and one Russian DX test.

He leads his closest pursuer JR7OMD by over 3,300 points.

Over in AS #2, Vadim Ovasiannikov UA9CLB has a record much like that of JH4UYB in Japan, as Ovasiannikov won 940 and 950 points in the two CQ WW contests in 2007, stretching his lead to just under 1,000 points over Yuri Kurinyi UA9AM.

While one team leader slot is available for Japan, Asiatic Russia has two qualifying spots available, and for now UA9CLB and UA9AM are well ahead. The closest pursuer is over 1,100 points behind UA9AM.

Over in AS #3, which comprises all areas in Asia outside of Japan and Asiatic Russia, Vladimir Vinichenko UN9LW extended his lead by getting just over 1400 points in last year's CQ WW contests, giving him a lead of over 2,300 points on Champ E21EIC and Steve Hodgson ZC4LI. Neither of them registered any points in CQWW last year.

Three team leader slots are available in AS #3, putting the top three in good shape with only three qualifying events left.

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 6,810 - (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 5,094 - (8 scores)

• E21EIC 3,780 - (8 scores)

• ZC4LI 3,733 - (7 scores)

• 9K2RR 3,068 - (5 scores)

• 9K2HN 2,563 - (6 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for AS #3

There are two qualifying events left for stations in Asia, but results must also still come in from six contests that were held earlier this year (Russian DX, WPX CW, WPX SSB, IARU, WAE CW and WAE SSB.)

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 Russian DX, 2007 CQ WPX SSB and CW contests, the 2007 CQ WW SSB and CW tests and the 2008 ARRL DX Contests.

(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.