2010 WRTC South America: YV1DIG, PY8AZT Punch Their Two Tickets To Russia

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

There were no surprises from the results of the final three WRTC qualifying contests, as PT8AZT and YV1DIG locked up reservations to Russia 2010.

But it wasn't easy going for either of them.

In the all-Brazil SA #1 region, Luciano Moreira PY8AZT (PT7AG) finished with an over 600 point advantage on Vitor Santos PY2NY, after solid finishes in the 2008 CQ WW Contests and the 2009 Russian DX.

But PY2NY did not go quietly, outpointing PY8AZT in CQ WW SSB. Moreira though clinched his team leader position with 817 WRTC points in CQ WW CW and 791 in Russian DX.

In the SA #2 region, Paolo Stradiotto YV1DIG was not under as much heat as PY8AZT, but that didn't stop him from adding on more points in the final three qualifying contests.

Stradiotto made sure no one caught him, as he had the top SA #2 score in the 2009 Russian DX contest to earn the maximum 910 WRTC points.

Finishing second in SA #2 was Juan Pablo Merce LU4DX.

Under the 2010 WRTC rules, one team leader qualifies from each of South America's two regions, and both PY8AZT and YV1DIG quickly sent in their entries to the WRTC organizers.

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

SA #1 is Brazil.

• PY8AZT 6,668 - (8 scores)

• PY2NY 6,052 - (8 scores)

• PY2YU 5,973 - (8 scores)

• PY2MNL 5,484 - (8 scores)

• PY2ZXU 5,146 - (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for SA #1

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

• YV1DIG 5,087 - (8 scores)

• LU4DX 3,911 - (8 scores)

• LU1FAM 3,841 - (8 scores)

• LU5FF 3,564 - (8 scores)

• LU7DX 3,529 - (8 scores)

Check out the top scores results spreadsheet for SA #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.

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.