WRTC Oceania: ZL1AIH & KH6ND Hold Leads In Race For Two Regional Team Leader Slots

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

Results of three more contests from 2008 helped add to the leads of the top operators in the two WRTC Oceania regions in qualifying for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships.

In OC #2, Mike Gibson KH6ND used top finishes in the IARU and WPX CW contests to further extend his lead, drawing him even closer to qualifying for Russia in 2010.

While Gibson moved out to a lead of over 2,000 points, two new ops forced their way into second and third place overall, knocking a pair of Indonesian hams down the line.

Joel Chalmers KG6DX is now in second place, while John Hillyer KH6SH moved his way into third in the OC #2 region.

Meanwhile, the OC #1 region that includes Australia and New Zealand, is still being led by Robert McCormack ZL1AIH.

McCormack saw his lead trimmed by former leader Bernd Langer VK2IA from 606 points down to 290.

Back in third is Frank Hunt ZL2BR, who trails by 819 points.

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.

• ZL1AIH 4,006 - (7 scores)

• VK2IA 3,716 - (5 scores)

• ZL2BR 3,187 - (6 scores)

• VK2AEA 3,052 - (8 scores)

• VK7GN 2,606 - (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for OC #1

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

• KH6ND 5,800 - (8 scores)

• KG6DX 3,711 - (8 scores)

• KH6SH 3,567 - (8 scores)

• YC1KAF 3,243 - (6 scores)

• YD1JZ 3,229 - (5 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for OC #2

There are no more qualifying events left for stations in the Oceania region, 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.