HI3TEJ Edges Back Into WRTC Central America Lead; HP1WW Now Second, WP3C Third

By Jamie Dupree NS3T  radio-sport.net 
Posted March 25, 2009

The back and forth continues in qualifying from Central America for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships, as Teddy Jiminez HI3TEJ is now back in the lead in the fight for one regional team leader slot.

Jiminez used a first place low power result in the 2008 WAE SSB Contest to grab 511 points, moving from 237 points behind Olli Rissanen HP1WW to a lead of just 57 points.

HP1WW did pick up a few points from a 332-point outing in the 2008 WPX CW contest as he erased an earlier score.

Velez took over third place from Constantino Carlo HI3CCP, who dropped to fourth.

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.

• HI3TEJ 3,822 - (7 scores)

• HP1WW - 3,765 - (8 scores)

• WP3C 3,105 - (5 scores)

• HI3CCP - 2,760 - (6 scores)

• TI2KAC 1,664 (8 scores)

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

There are no more qualifying events left for stations in Central America, but results must still come in from three contests, the 2008 CQ WW DX SSB and CW tests and the 2009 Russian DX contest.

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

(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.