WRTC Oceania: New Leader In OC #1 As VK2IA Jumps; KH6ND Extends Edge in OC #2 Regional

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

Top finishes in the 2008 Russian DX Contest determined the latest moves in Oceania qualifying for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships, as Mike Gibson KH6ND and Bernd Langer VK2IA now lead the race for team leader slots.

After a big jump in our last update, Gibson KH6ND used a top finish in Russian DX to claim another 910 points, padding his lead over Terry Ridwan YC1KAF to almost 1944 points, making Gibson the clear qualifying favorite in the OC #2 region.

In OC #1, which comprises both Australia and New Zealand, Russian DX was the key for Langer VK2IA, as he used the 910 points to vault over Robert McCormack ZL1AIH.

Langer leads by 124 points, which means the standings could easily change as results come in from other major 2008 contests, especially since VK2IA only has four of the possible eight qualifying scores.

Under the Russian WRTC rules, one team leader slot is available from each of the two Oceania regions.

Here are the top five operators from OC #1 as found by radio-sport.net. A full spreadsheet link for each region is available.

OC #1 includes VK and ZL.

• VK2IA 3,124 - (4 scores)

• ZL1AIH 3,000 - (6 scores)

• VK2AEA 2,615 - (7 scores)

• VK7GN 2,570 - (8 scores)

• ZL2AL 2,291 - (5 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for OC #1

OC #2 has all of Oceania except VK and ZL.

• KH6ND 5,140 - (8 scores)

• YC1KAF 3,196 - (6 scores)

• YD1JZ 3,183 - (5 scores)

• KG6DX 3,181 - (8 scores)

• KH6SH 3,109 - (7 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for OC #2

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