2010 WRTC South America: LU7HN Grabs Narrow SA #2 Lead; PY2NY Builds Lead In SA #1

By Jamie Dupree NS3T, radio-sport.net 

Taking advantage of the 2007 CQ WPX CW test, Rene Ernesto LU7HN is the new leader of the SA #2 qualifying region, while Vitor Santos PY2NY has extended in the all-Brazil qualifying region for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships in Russia.

Ernesto scored 321 WRTC points, just enough to vault him into first place over Lucas Maiorov LU1FAM, who now trails by only nine points.

Only 36 points behind now is Juan Pablo Merce LU4DX, as Argentine competitors make up the top six spots in SA #2.

As for SA #1, the story continues to be the exploits of PY2NY, as Santos chalked up 481 points in the 2007 WPX CW, the only Brazilian op in the top six spots to do that.

He now leads Luciano Moreira PY8AZT by just under 1,000 points. Moreier had been as close as 84 points back in December.

Under the 2010 WRTC rules, one team leader qualifies from each of South America's two regions.

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.

• PY2NY 4,749 - (8 scores)

• PY8AZT 3,774 - (5 scores)

• PT7CB 3,423 - (5 scores)

• PY2WS 2,802 - (4 scores)

• PY2MNL 2,746 - (5 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for SA #1

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

• LU7HN 2,584 - (6 scores)

• LU1FAM 2,575 - (7 scores)

• LU4DX 2,548 - (6 scores)

• LW8DQ 2,345 - (5 scores)

• LU5HM 2,116 - (5 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for SA #2

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

Please remember that it is your responsiblity to track your progress and submit your score to the WRTC sponsors.

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.