WRTC Canada: Two New Leaders As VE3DZ and VE7CC Jump Ahead

By Jamie Dupree NS3T  radio-sport.net 
Posted January 12, 2009

The two Canadian qualifying regions for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships continue to be very close, as there are two new leaders in the latest score updates from radio-sport.net.

Back in front in the Eastern NA #5 region is Yuri Onipko VE3DZ, who used a top finish for a second straight year in the Russian DX Contest to give himself 6,030 points overall - just 65 more than Ron Vander Kraats VE3AT.

Vander Kraats actually outscored Onipko in the Russian DX and WPX SSB Contests from 2008, but Onipko's scores replaced ones that were lower, giving him the boost into first. Those two have gone back and forth now for an entire year.

Out West in NA #6, the new leader is Lee Sawkins VE7CC, who took top honors in the region for the 2008 Russian DX Contest to help put himself into first, 267 points ahead of the former leader Bud Mortenson VA7ST.

Dropping to third was Daniel Lazar VE6EX, who had made a charge for the lead earlier this year. He stands 431 points behind VE7CC.

The Russian qualifying criteria give Canada a pair of teams for the 2010 competition, one from each region.

Here are the top five operators from Canada's two WRTC regions as determined by radio-sport.net. Check the link for a full spreadsheet on each region.

NA #5 includes VO1, VY2, VE1, VE2, VE3, VE4, VO2 and VE9.

• VE3DZ 6,030 - (8 scores)

• VE3AT 5,975 - (8 scores)

• VE3EJ 5,777 - (8 scores)

• VE3EY 4,151 - (8 scores)

• VE2XAA 3,892 - (8 scores)

Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #5

NA #6 is VE5, VE6, VE7, VE8, VY0 and VY1.

• VE7CC 5,764 - (8 scores)

• VA7ST 5,407 - (8 scores)

• VE6EX 5,333 - (8 scores)

• VE6CNU 4,045 - (8 scores)

• VE5UA 3,881 - (5 scores)

The full results are available on a spreadsheet for NA #6

There is only one qualifying event remaining for the 2010 WRTC, that being the 2009 Russian DX Contest.

The standings though could still change a lot, as a number of contest results from 2008 still must come in.

Those include the WPX CW, IARU, WAE CW, WAE SSB and both legs of the 2008 November Sweepstakes.

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 and 2007 CQ WW CW and SSB contests, 2007 and 2008 ARRL DX SSB & CW, 2007 Russian DX, 2007 CQ WPX SSB and CW contests, 2008 WPX SSB, 2007 November Sweepstakes and the 2007 and 2008 NA Sprints.

(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.