HP1WW Uses Top WAE CW Finish To Grab Central America WRTC Lead From HI3TEJ; HI3CCP Third

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

One of the few operators from Central America on the air for the Worked All Europe CW contest last August, Olli Rissanen HP1WW was rewarded for his effort, as he now leads the Central American region in WRTC qualifying.

HP1WW used a full 730 WRTC points from WAE CW to edge ahead of Teddy Jiminez HI3TEJ in the battle for one team leader slot in the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships in Russia.

Jiminez now trails HP1WW by 237 points.

In third is Constantino Carlo HI3CCP, almost 800 points behind. He is only one point ahead of fourth place Jose Velez WP3C.

The Russian qualifying criteria gives Central America one "team leader" slot for the WRTC, based on the eight best scores in WRTC qualifying contests. Here are the unofficial numbers as determined by radio-sport.net.

• HP1WW - 3,548 - (8 scores)

• HI3TEJ 3,311 - (6 scores)

• HI3CCP - 2,760 - (6 scores)

• WP3C 2,759 - (4 scores)

• XE2K 1,500 (3 scores)

The full results - all unofficial - are available on a spreadsheet for Central America

There is only one qualifying event left for stations in Central America, but results must still come in from five contests that were held in 2008: WPX CW, IARU, 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, 2008 WAE CW 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.