By Jamie Dupree NS3T  radio-sport.net 
Posted August 10, 2010

After his entry in the 2009 CQ WW SSB Contest was reclassified from Low Power to Assisted, Teddy Jiminez HI3TEJ has dropped out of the lead in the radio-sport.net Single Operator World Standings, clearing the way for Yuri Kurinyi UA9AM to grab the top spot, with a narrow lead over Yuri Onipko VE3DZ.

The changes came with the addition of results from three contests run by CQ Magazine, the 2009 CQ WPX RTTY, CQ WW RTTY and the CQ WW SSB.

Here is the current radio-sport.net Top Ten:

#1 Yuri Kurinyi UA9AM

Breaking out of a second place tie with Yuri Onipko VE3DZ, Kurinyi seized the lead in the radio-sport.net Single Operator Standings thanks to seven Top Ten finishes. The key one may have been a 7th place finish in the CQ WW RTTY in 2009, which matched a similar effort by VE3DZ, keeping the Russian in the lead. Kurinyi is only the third contester to hold the top spot, following John Crovelli W2GD and Teddy Jiminez HI3TEJ. UA9AM has 54 points.

#2 Yuri Onipko VE3DZ

After making a big jump earlier this year, Onipko solidified his hold on second place in the radio-sport.net Single Operator standings, and now is just three points behind first place UA9AM. Onipko has seven Top Ten finishes to his credit, including a category win in the 2009 WPX CW Contest. He has 51 points, five ahead of his nearest pursuer.

#3 Jeff Briggs K1ZM

Edging up to third place now is Jeff Briggs K1ZM/VY2ZM, who has six Top Ten finishes to his credit, giving him 46 pionts. Briggs has two victories to his credit in the standings, in the 2010 ARRL CW and 2009 Stew Perry 160 Contest. He is now only 8 points out of first place.

#4 Slavko Celarc S57DX

Moving up from 7th to 4th place is a familiar call from contesting, as S57DX owns six Top Ten finishes in the current radio-sport.net standings. Three of those efforts were category victories, in the 2009 CQ 160 SSB, and both ends of the 2009 WAE contest. Celarc has 44 points overall, just ten behind the leader UA9AM.

#5 Ted Jiminez HI3TEJ

After having eight Top Ten finishes earlier this year, Jiminez dropped to fifth place, with only six Top Tens, giving him 43 points overall, down from his water mark of 58 points. HI3TEJ did have the second highest claimed score in low power in the 2009 CQ WW SSB Contest, but log checkers forced him into the Assisted category, a change Jiminez disputed. That would have given him nine more points in the radio-sport.net standings, and put him in second place.

#6 Wanderly Gomes PY2MNL

Back in contention for the top slot in the radio-sport.net standings, Gomes has seven top ten finishes in the current standings, highlighted by a category win in the 2009 CQ WW RTTY contest. Many contesters might not recognize his home call, but his contest call of ZX2B is a very familiar one in many logs. Gomes has 42 points overall.

#7 Ed Sawyer N1UR

Staying in the top ten, Sawyer's low power efforts continue to win him points, as he edged up to 40 overall in the radio-sport.net standings. N1UR has six Top Ten finishes overall, including a category win in the 2010 ARRL CW Contest, as several years of work have paid off on his contest station in New England.

#8 tie Phil Krichbaum N0KE

Tied with S57DX for eighth place is N0KE, who has used a series of trips to TI5N in Costa Rica to bolster his record, as Krichbaum has four top ten finishes. They include three QRP victories in ARRL SSB 2009, WPX SSB 2009 and the 2008 CQ WW CW Contest. He has 32 points overall.

#8 tie Valery Komarov RD3AF

Back in the radio-sport.net Top Ten is Komarov, a Russian contester who excels in both CW and RTTY events, often operating from the Canary Islands as EF8M. Komarov has three category victories in the current standings, including the 2009 WPX CW and the 2009 CQ WW RTTY. He has five top ten finishes overall, giving him 39 points.

#10 Serge Rebrov UT5UDX

Making his first appearance in the top ten is Serge Rebrov, maybe best known for his exploits as a world class football (soccer) player. Rebrov has four Top Ten finishes to his credit, mixing a category win in the 2009 CQ WW SSB Assisted race with top finishes in WPX RTTY, IARU and CQ WW CW. He rounds out the top ten with 35 points.