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With a more active sun spurring extra activity - even on 10 meters - the 2010 CQ WPX SSB Contest may have rewritten big chunks of the record book, with a second straight victory very likely for Jim Sullivan W7EJ, who may have also staked a claim to a new World SOAB HP record.
Sullivan claimed 27,973,071 points from his CN2R contest location in Morocco, just over a million points more than the record set in 2005 by 4L5A at D4B.
Whether that record stands will depend on log checks.
CN2R has a three million point edge on Tom Georgens W2SC, who claimed 24.8 million from 8P5A in Barbados. While that may not be enough to win the overall World title, Georgens shattered his own North American single op record of 20.5 million which he set in 2006.
In third place is Paul Kollenbaum K4XS, who also destroyed his own Single Op record for Oceania, with his claimed score of just over 21 million points. Last year, Kollenbaum set the mark with 17.6 million.
In Europe, the Single Op record also was smashed, as Braco Memic E77DX took E7DX to a claimed score of 16.7 million. That easily beats the European mark of 10.8 million by OK1RI set way back in 2001.
As for the Assisted category, that mark may have fallen, as Helmut Mueller DF7ZS operated CQ3L to 18.2 million points, almost 2.4 million more than the existing record set by John Crovelli W2GD from P40W in 2007.
Just like their single operator colleagues, the Multi-ops of the world seem to have left their mark on the 2010 WPX SSB Contest as well.
It looks like the World Multi-Multi record set by HC8N in 2003 may be erased from the record books, as Team EB8AH is claiming 66.1 million points - giving the URE squad an over 5 million point cushion on the existing M/M record.
While the HC8N mark may be gone in M/M, Team HC8GR made up for some of that, as it blasted through the World Multi-Two mark set by AN8A in 2007, claiming 53.6 million points, over 6 million more than the World record set in 2007.
In the Multi-Single category, the 2002 World record of D44TD may also be gone, as Team 5D5A checked in with 38.8 million points, over 5 million more than the current M/2 mark.
The European M/2 mark is also history, as Team OL4A totaled 35.1 million points, absolutely crushing the 2009 mark of 9A800VZ (19.1 million).
The European Multi-Single mark may also be in new hands, as Team CQ8X (@ CR2X) claimed 22.2 million points, giving them a 3 million point edge over the 2002 M/S record of 9A7A.
As for the European Multi-Multi mark, Team DR1A ended up with what would be a new World record of 1,771 prefixes, helping them to 49.9 million points, #2 overall in the World in Multi-Multi scores.
It's the same story across the Atlantic, as some North American records may change hands as well. In the Multi-Two category, Team K1LZ broke the US and NA record, with 3 million points to spare over 6Y1V's 2008 NA mark.
K1LZ also shattered the US and NA records for most prefixes in the SSB contest, finishing with 1,576.
2010 CQ WPX SSB Contest Claimed Score Leaders
As detailed on the left, Team K1LZ led the way in the Multi-Two category in the US, destroying the M/2 record set by KD4D/3 in 2006, as K1LZ claimed over 32 million points, more than doubling the KD4D mark.
Team KD4D didn't do too bad in 2010 either, as Mark Bailey's PVRC squad almost beat their own record by 5 million points, but that was good enough only for second place in Multi-Two.
In the Multi-Single category, the 2009 record of K1LZ may or may not stay on the books, as Team NG3R (@K9RS) finished with 16.2 million points, about 200,000 more than the existing K1LZ M/S record in the USA.
The big single op news comes in the High Power category, where Kamal Sirageldin N3KS operated WY3P to 12.99 million points, giving him a good chance to erase the SOAB HP record of Bob Shohet KQ2M.
Shohet had 11.87 million points in the 2000 CQ WPX SSB test.
For much more information about the CQ WPX Contests, go to the WPX web site.
