WRTC Oceania: VK2IA Makes Late Rush To Join KH6ND In Lead For Russia 2010 Qualifying

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

Like a thoroughbred making a late charge down the stretch, Bernd Langer VK2IA clinched a spot in the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships, keyed by a top regional finish in the 2008 CQ WW CW Contest.

Langer's top score there and a solid finish in the 2009 Russian DX, helped him overcome the lead of Robert McCormack ZL1AIH in the Oceania qualifying region that covered Australia and New Zealand.

Langer quickly sent in his entry for the 2010 WRTC, where he is expected to join Mike Gibson KH6ND, who easily won the OC #2 region.

Gibson got no points from last year's CQ WW tests because of single band entries, but he put together a solid outing in the 2009 Russian DX test, giving him 784 points.

Surging into second place was fellow Hawaiian op John Hillyer KH6SH, who won the top 910 max points in the Russian DX contest, putting him two points ahead of Joel Chalmers KG6DX.

Under the Russian WRTC rules, one team leader slot is available from each of the two Oceania regions, which at this point would go to VK2IA and KH6ND.

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

OC #1 includes VK and ZL.

• VK2IA 5,648 - (8 scores)

• ZL1AIH 4,998 - (8 scores)

• VK3TZ 3,627 - (8 scores)

• ZL2BR 3,175 - (6 scores)

• VK2AEA 3,052 - (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for OC #1

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

• KH6ND 5,964 - (8 scores)

• KH6SH 4,371 - (8 scores)

• KG6DX 4,369 - (8 scores)

• YD1JZ 3,957 - (7 scores)

• DV1JM 3,347- (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for OC #2

Qualifying is now over for the 2010 WRTC.

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, 2007 and 2008 CQ WW CW and SSB contests, 2007 and 2008 ARRL DX SSB & CW, 2007, 2008 & 2009 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.