2010 WRTC South America: WAE CW Results Mean New Leaders; YV1DIG, PY8AZT Now Tops

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

Strong efforts in a series of 2008 contests have now given two South American hams the lead in their respective divisions, as Luciano Moreira PY8AZT (PT7AG) now leads the all-Brazil region, while Paolo Stradiotto YV1DIG now leads in SA #2.

Moreira's lead in SA #1 came as he netted 730 WRTC points from the 2008 WAE CW test, giving him a 99 point lead over Vitor Santos PY2NY.

Despite some top finishes, Santos had watched his lead dwindle in recent months, and now will be hard pressed to find a way to move back into first with just one qualifying event left, this year's Russian DX Contest.

Those two are well clear of the field at this point in time.

Over in SA #2, Stradiotto YV1DIG has taken the lead for the first time in this competition, as his 459 WRTC points from WAE CW moved him ahead of Juan Pablo Merce LU4DX by 288 points overall.

Staying in third was Lucas Mairov LU1FAM, 24 points ahead of Martin Monsalvo LU5DX, who picked up 602 points. The regional winner was Jorge Diez CX6VM, who jumped to 18th place overall.

Under the 2010 WRTC rules, one team leader qualifies from each of South America's two regions, making these contests all the more important for the top operators in each region.

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

SA #1 is Brazil.

• PY8AZT 5,796 - (8 scores)

• PY2NY 5,697 - (8 scores)

• PT7CB 4,936 - (7 scores)

• PY2ZXU 4,354 - (8 scores)

• PY2NDX 4,245 - (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for SA #1

SA #2 is all of South America outside of Brazil.

• YV1DIG 3,919 - (8 scores)

• LU4DX 3,631 - (8 scores)

• LU1FAM 3,440 - (7 scores)

• LU5DX 3,424 - (8 scores)

• LU7HN 3,062 - (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for SA #2

There is only one qualifying event left for stations in South 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.

The qualifying rules stipulate that no more than four of your eight best scores can come from a multi-operator effort - AND no more than four of your scores can be from outside your "home" region.

On the far right of the spreadsheet, some stations have a list of how many multi-op scores and how many are DX. It is mainly noted for those who are over the limit or close to it.