W9RE, K7RL LEAD BATTLES FOR NINE US 2010 WRTC BIDS
By Jamie Dupree NS3T
With the results of ten qualifying contests now in for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championship in Russia, some WRTC veterans and major players in the contest world are beginning to show their strength.
In qualifying region NA #2, WRTC vet Mike Wetzel has by far the most qualifying points of any United States operator, with 4,989. That was keyed by a pair of NA #2 victories in the 2006 CQ WW SSB and CW contests, giving him the full 950 points for each contest.
Wetzel also squeezed out some more points in the September NA Sprint CW contest, improving 46 points from his February performance. There are four NA Sprints each year - you are allowed to submit only one score from each mode in 2007 and 2008 under the WRTC rules.
As for leaders of the other US regions, they include Krassy Petkov K1LZ in NA #1, Charles Cullian K0RF in NA #3 and Mitch Mason K7RL in NA #4.
The 2010 rules give three team leader slots to NA #1 and two slots each in NA #2, #3 and #4.
Here are the top five operators from each US region (NA#1-NA#4) as found by radio-sport.net. A full spreadsheet link for each region is available.
NA #1 includes W1, W2, W3 and part of W4.
Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #1
NA #2 has some of W4 along with W8 and W9.
Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #2
NA #3 is W5 and W0.
Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #3
NA #4 is W6, W7 and KL7.
Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #4
The unofficial results produced by radio-sport.net include the final published results of the 2006 IARU, the 2006 WAE CW and WAE SSB, two NA Sprint CW contests from 2007, the February SSB Sprint and the 2007 ARRL DX SSB & CW contests and the 2006 the CQ WW CW and SSB contests.
(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.)
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.
(One other item that skews the WRTC data is that the Russian rules only allow two operators to claim points from a multi-op score. )
US and Canadian operators have a busy October and November, with four different WRTC qualifying contests. They include both the SSB and CW versions of CQ WW DX and both modes of the November Sweepstakes.
Credit: http://wrtc.radio-sport.net/US_ranks.htm
