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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Results 1997 RAC Canada Day Contest
From: ve2zp@bbs.ve3jf.ampr.org (ve2zp@bbs.ve3jf.ampr.org)
Date: Tue Dec 9 01:39:28 1997
                      
                      RAC Canada Day Contest 1997 - Results

                           by Dave Goodwin VE2ZP/VE9CB
                              RAC HF Contest Manager
                         and Chris Allingham VE3FU/VO2AC

After four years of impressive growth, activity and scores levelled off somewhat
this year.  While four new records were set, the number of entrants fell
slightly, and the high-scoring logs were somewhat thinner this year.  One thing
that was not short supply, however, was fun and reasonably good conditions.  

Four New Records

Peter VE6NAO helped bring back the QRP category with a bang.  His score tripled
the old mark set in 1993.

Gary VE7NTT, one of the most accomplished contesters in this country, finally
decided to give this contest a try.  Gary not only grasped many of the essential
quirks of the RAC contest, but he set a new 20m record that may stand for very
many years.  

Bob VE1CZ, a very regular participant in the low-power category, took aim at the
10m record.  He not only surpassed it, he set a new record three-and-one-half
times the old.  For a so-called dead band, canny Bob was able to find quite a
bit of life.  

Carleton VE3BY, entering his first contest ever, set a new record on 80m. 
Carleton may be someone to watch, should he decide contesting is his thing. 

Single Op High Power

This should sound familiar to most of you - Robby VY2SS led this category,
although he enjoyed a mere 35k margin above second place Bruce N6NT operating at
VY1RAC.  Bruce's multiplier total was the highest among the single-ops.  Third
and fourth places were earned by two friends from the south of the border, Ken
N6RO and Bill K4LTA.  The top ten scores in this category went from coast to
coast, and down into the US.

Single Op Low Power

Once again, Sam VE5SF took the low-power category, more than doubling the
impressive score of his nearest competition, Gus VE6GUS.  Second through seventh
places were all quite close scores, with entrants from Ontario through British
Columbia.  

This was the most popular category in the contest, attracting 58 entrants.

QRP Revived

And what a revival!  Cancelled three years ago for lack of interest, the QRP
category returned with more entrants than in all previous RAC Contest combined. 
The top-scoring station, Peter VE6NAO more than tripled the old record, and led
the 11-strong QRP contingent.  

Single op single band

We saw logs for entrants on every band save 15m and 160m this year.  14MHz was
the most popular single band, attracting 44 entrants.  As mentioned above, Gary
VE7NTT led the pack with the highest QSO total ever made by any single op in any
category. Frank VE7AV followed Gary with the only other single-band score over
100k.  There were other strong performances by another Garry, VE3XN, Bev VE7VFM,
who borrowed the excellent station of his brother, Dale VE7SV and Ray VE6SF.  In
sixth place, Gerald K9BG turned in the best foreign single-band score.

Eighty metres attracted 12 competitors, with Carleton VE3BY the runaway leader
and holder of the new record on that band.  Similarly, on 40m the hands-down
winner was Zoran VA3GW.

At the higher end of the spectrum, Bob VE1CZ made the most of what propagation
10m offered to set a record that will require many sunspots to break.  Ken
VE3FIT let the contingent of 6m operators,  and Trevor VE3TLT.

Multi-op

Among the 22 multi-op entrants, two managed scores over one million points. 
Perennial winners VE6JY suggested that slightly lower activity kept their score
down to a still-huge 1.5Meg.  The Prince George Contest Club VE7ZZZ were the
other members of the million-point society.  We saw very strong scores from
three other well-established clubs: the Sask-Alta Radio Club near Lloydminster
(VE5RI) operated as VE5RAC to place third, the Hamilton ARC's VE3DC came fourth,
and Saint John's
Loyalist City ARC VE9LC took fifth place.  

The multi-op category lends itself well to introducing newcomers to contesting. 
VE6RAC operated by members of the Peace Country ARC (VE6ARC) did just that, and
had a lot of fun in the process.  

Participation

In total, RAC received 195 logs (down from 227 in 1996) with at least 300
operators involved.  The number of Canadians involved was slightly higher.  If
you include the operators at multi-ops, 288 Canadians were involved in a log
entry, up from 278 last year.  

As Gary VE7NTT observed (see comments below), there was plenty of activity at
most times, save for the wee small hours.  There is an ongoing problem of
relatively little CW activity, and far too many people who disingenuously claim
"I can't find my key."

Foreign participation fell somewhat.  We received logs from 47 Amateurs in 15
countries.  This decline may in part be due to a drop in US entries - QST
published the wrong address for entries, and many US logs were returned by the
post office. The fact that our national holiday is not a holiday for other folks
remains an inhibition to some foreign entrants, but a change is not in the
offing.  

Awards

Robby Robertson VY2SS again wins the Atlantic Ham Radio trophy for the
top-scoring Single Op All Bands entrant.  

Sam Ferris VE5SF wins the Single Op Low Power trophy sponsored by Durham Radio
Sales and Service.

Gary Caldwell VE7NTT wins the Single Op Single Band trophy for his
record-setting 20m score.  This trophy is sponsored by H.C. MacFarlane
Electronics.

The top-scoring foreign entrant was Ken Keeler N6RO.  Ken wins the Jorge Bozzo
LU8DQ memorial trophy sponsored by Alan Goodacre VE3HX/VE2AEJ.

As well, 99 entrants won certificates for their efforts, and should have them by
the time this appears in print.  All entrants will receive a copy of these
results and copies of the suggested forms for the Canada Winter Contest.  

Thanks

I would like to offer thanks to Chris Allingham VE3FU/VO2AC who helped with
log-checking and compiling the results.  Chris did a very through job of
checking logs, and took more than half of the load on this occasion.  

I would also like to thank the many supporters and participants in this 
contest. 
Over the last five years, the Canada Day Contest has gone from strength to
strength.  This is now a "can't-miss" event for many Canadian Amateurs, and for
several abroad as well.  

This will be the last Canada Day contest with me as manager.  With next year's
contest, John Vogrinetz VE6FR takes the helm.  I have one RAC contest left to
manage: the Canada Winter Contest on 28 December.  Please circle that date, and
be sure to take part.  

Multiplier Leaders
Call    Cat    Tot   160  80  40  20  15  10   6   2
VE6JY   M      106     7  18  22  23  20   8   4   4
VE7ZZZ  M       91     8  15  19  24  11  10   2   2
VE3DC   M       86     4  15  22  23  10   4   6   2
VE5RAC  M       78     4  11  16  24   9   6   4   4
VY1RAC  A       78     7  10  14  22  13   8   2   2
VE5SF   L       74     5  13  18  22   9   5   0   2

Record Scores
Call    Cat       QSO    Mul          Score    Year
VY2SS   A        1163     77        615,230    1996
VA3RAC  L         815     93        643,188    1996
(op. VE3KZ)
VE6NAO  Q         211     52        100,776    1997
VE6BEQ  144        59      2          1,220    1996
VE3FIT  50         27      4          1,048    1994
VE1CZ   28        183      9          7,128    1997
DF6VE   21        ---     --          3,015    1980
VE7NTT  14       1521     24        194,016    1997
VE6JO   7         353     20         61,320    1996
VE3BY   3.5       447     15         64,800    1997
VE3DO   1.8        82     18         11,412    1996
VC6RAC  M        2857     99      1,837,440    1996

Full Results
Single Op All Bands (High Power)
Call    Cat       QSO    Mul          Score
VY2SS   A        1175     66        507,540  *
VY1RAC  A        1096     78        472,368  *
(N6NT Op.)
N6RO    A         593     70        389,340  *
K4LTA   A         625     65        348,010  *
VE5MX   A         457     50        167,600  *
VO1XE   A         395     43        145,770  *
VE7RAC  A         412     41        138,416  *
(op. VE7DK)
VY2LI   A         401     38        122,892  *
VE2ABE  A         492     30        116,280  *
VE5CPU  A         219     44         93,192
VE7NS   A         262     32         79,360
VE2VTS  A         168     47         74,542
VE3ESE  A         204     30         58,800  *
VE7HRC  A         173     32         50,406
VE3OVU  A         189     27         47,250
VE1VEI  A         331     18         42,624  *
VE4RP   A         181     21         36,036  *
VE7XO   A         110     27         33,210
K4EF    A         109     26         30,940
VE3XL   A          86     20         15,920
N6HR    A         105     16         15,040
K4BAI   A         103     17         13,158
VE3BR   A          37     19          6,916
G4LQI   A          30     19          5,738  *
EA3ALV  A          29     11          1,782  *
N0MSB   A          15      8          1,040  *
VE6IC   A          18      6            708  *
JA9XBW  A           8      6            480  *

Single Op All Bands (Low Power)
VE5SF   L         880     74        513,708*
VE6GUS  L         472     59        222,902*
VA3NR   L         401     64        198,912*
VE4YU   L         387     62        195,796*
VE3WIB  L         385     56        186,680*
VA3RAC  L         394     51        164,730
(op. VE3BDB)
VE7NF   L         401     50        149,700*
VE5ZG   L         240     51        127,194*
VE1LV   Q         292     47        125,678*
VE2AWR  L         407     48        125,568*
VE2JCW  L         389     39        108,810
VA3SWG  L         305     42        108,192
VO1UL   L         223     46        106,996
VE7TLK  L         266     34         93,772
VO1GO   L         206     49         87,612
VE3LNS  L         214     48         85,632
VA3KAI  L         270     35         84,700
VE4RON  L         350     24         71,952
VE2TTN  L         415     25         69,950
VE3SRE  L         175     43         68,972
VO1IMB  L         196     36         67,032
VE7IO   L         205     33         65,604
VE9DXR  L         293     22         59,400*
VE2AEJ/3L         132     42         51,996
VE3TLC  L         114     36         49,752
VE3AAS  L         134     31         41,954
W4YE    L         115     31         37,696*
VE7CA   L         180     29         37,178
VE3KZ   L         130     28         34,888
WA3HAE  L         114     33         34,650*
VO1UO   L         221     21         34,230
K8GT    L         102     35         33,355*
VE3WZ   L         144     30         31,080
VE7EYF  L         112     24         25,584
VE3GRQ  L         100     23         25,070                                     
 
      
VE3WOR  L          76     32         24,000
VE3GNU  L          97     25         24,150
VY2RB   L         307      9         21,654*
VA3TEE  L         102     27         21,330
VE3YQY  L         101     22         20,636
VE7DXF  L         123     19         20,102
VE2GWL  L         111     19         18,202
VE6JKZ  L          81     22         15,796
W2EZ    L          69     20         12,840*
W3SOH/1 L          49     22         12,100*
VE3TTV  L          47     24         11,424
VE7AGT  L          58     15          9,810
VE3OIL  L          50     17          7,616
VE3TEP  L          41     17          6,664
W7YS    L          33     15          5,550*
VE3ESN  L          31     11          3,256
VE3IW   L          37     11          2,706
VE1TX   L          52      6          1,872
K0LWV   L          30      7          1,610*
VE2RO   L          20      7          1,484
JA6UBK  L          21      7            980*
DL3ZAI  L          16      3            168*
HB9AON  L           8      0              0*

Single Op All Bands (QRP)
VE6NAO  Q         211     52        100,776*
VE3JC   Q          71     29         20,184*
VE5RC   Q          60     21         13,356*
VE9GM   Q          48     14          5,432*
K3WWP   Q          34     12          3,552*
K8UCL   Q          33     10          3,500*
VE7EKS  Q          22      8          1,824*
VE9VIC  Q          17      9          1,464
VE3REP  Q          14      7            938
VE3FMC  Q          27      4            608
N2NO    Q           9      5            460*

Single Op Single Band (MHz)
VE2SHW  144        42      1            430*
VE3TLT  144        10      1             84*
VE3FIT  50         34      4            976*
VE7CYT  50         20      2            288*
VE2PIJ  50         11      2            124*
VE1CZ   28        183      9          7,128*
VE3HX   28         25      4            488*
LW7EGO  28          5      2             52*
VE7NTT  14       1521     24        194,016*
VE7AV   14        759     23        131,928*
VE3XN   14        402     23         78,798*
VE7SV   14        658     21         77,238
(VE7VFM Op.)
VE6SF   14        446     22         65,692*
K9BG    14        385     22         63,712*
VE5GC   14        345     20         47,280*
VE3KXU  14        158     21         32,500
VE3LPE  14        208     21         30,576
VA3JPM  14        155     19         25,346
VE2BWJ  14        115     22         22,880*
VO2LJ   14        274     11         22,198*
VE3HLW  14         69     22         14,542
VE3KLM  14         96     18         13,176
VE1AYY  14        234     10         12,760*
VE9VAR  14        237     10         12,620*
VE7ONX  14         78     17         11,968
VE3CWE  14         49     20         10,320
VO1WIZ  14        109     10         10,100
N4MM    14         45     18          8,172*
K5LH    14         91     11          8,074*
N6JM    14         47     14          7,028*
VE2GMI  14         29     18          5,868
VE2GK   14         38     14          5,180
N5XG    14         28     11          3,520
VE3YM   14         34     10          3,300
VY1USI  14         75      8          3,280*
(op. NL7TB)
K4UK/W2/m          14     29  12      3,240*
SP6GYB  14         46     12          3,168*
K4UK/VE3/m         14     30  12      2,856
YU7KM   14         49     98          2,400*
SP8BAB  14         28     10          2,300
XE1HKR  14         24      8          1,952*
VA3ECH  14         16     10          1,740
VE3NQK  14         17     10          1,720
WB0RJJ  14         20      8          1,680*
DL2TG   14         24      8          1,344*
DJ9DZ   14         33      6          1,022
JA7BEW  14         14      6          1,020*
VA2CS   14         11      6            672
(op. Lindsay Spence)
TA3J    14         28      3            288*
US1I    14         26      2            220*
LA7IJ   14          3      3             90*
JA0HYU  14          4      2             80
VA3GW   7         211     20         50,360*
VE3SSV  7         138     15         19,770*
VE5BF   7          63      8          5,088*
VK1FF   7           9      5            500*
UR5ZOS  7          22      5            460*
IK5TSS  7           8      3            168*
N8TI    7           7      3            138*
N8LIQ   7           4      3             96         
VE3BY   3.5       447     15         64,800*
VE2WPZ  3.5       195     10         19,440*
VE9ML   3.5       141     12         16,896*
VE7STC  3.5       172      7         11,816*
VE7VDX  3.5       104      7          7,266
VE3KPP  3.5       136      5          6,010*
VE5BCS  3.5        45      6          2,880*
VE7GFT  3.5        44      5          2,320
VE2BIA  3.5        35      6          2,184
VE7RFL  3.5        33      4          1,368
W7DRA   3.5        19      3            630*
VE2LCM  3.5        31      8           320

Multi-Operator
VE6JY   M        2763    106      1,589,576*
VE7ZZZ  M        1517     91      1,013,922*
VE5RAC  M        1263     78        742,716*
VE3DC   M         972     86        690,924*
VE9LC   M         841     63        436,464*
VE1TRH  M         296     49        134,652*
VE7TUK  M         332     44        125,928
VA2RAC  M         326     44        125,576*
VE6RAC  M         338     30        101,500*
(at VE6ARC)
VE5NN   M         314     33         97,482
VE7RCN  M         299     34         83,200
VE5WF   M         237     36         81,936
VE7NA   M         243     33         75,504
VA3HL   M         193     41         73,718
VE6GR   M         247     34         71,468
VE3BMR  M         296     23         63,572
VE2BP   M         214     32         59,264
VE7QCA  M         163     27         43,470
VE3IGM  M         140     32         41,972
VE3EFE  M          52     12          6,648
VE3ZY   M          17      8          1,312
VE7DB   M          22      6          1,308

Check Logs: DJ0SH N2JTX VE2ZP VE3GSC (op. VE3PYG)

Operators at multi-ops:
VA2RAC: VE2ALE VE2ED
VA3HL: VA3EZ VA3HL
VE1TRH: VE1TRH VE1AGE
VE2BP: VE2BP VE2PLH
VE3BMR: VE3SYT VE3JYF VE3TUQ VE3TVD VE3VDW VA3CCI VA3AYG VA3SQU VE3TVN VE3TVX
VE3NPL VE3SVG Jim Morely
VE3DC: VE3AHQ VE3SS VE3OCY VE3NYX VE3OZY VE3NVY VE3YOC VE3STT VE3VFR VE3FBO
VE3JAI VE3OZO VE3VMO
VE3EFE: VE3EFE VE3PMI
VE3IGM: VE3IGM VE3OJN
VE3ZY: VE3FFK VE3ZTU
VE5NN: VE5CMA, VE5SJA, VE5JWP
VE5RAC: VE5JCR VE5FD VE5FN VE5WI VE6EZ VE6RDM
VE6GR: VE6QQ VE6MZ VE6ANL VE6LL VE6BVZ VE6KC VE6EDY
VE6JY: VE6BF VE6JO VE6FR VE6JY VE6SLV VE6LDX VE6JTM VE6DXX VE6WQ VE6RIT VE6MK
VE6YIK
VE6RAC: VE6TUR VE6BLK VE6CI VE6LND VE6GFZ Terry
VE7DB: VE7MF VE7KNO VE7CQF Robin Smith
VE7QCA: VE7EOP VE7RXB VE7TLL VE7LOL
VE7RCN: VE3DYW VE7EYY VE7FEB VE7XWN
VE7TUK: Members from the North Okanagan Radio Amateur Club
VE7ZZZ: VE7CV VE7DBS VE7EME VE7PTT VE7RBL VE7SK VE7VX
VE9LC: VE9JW VE9WH VE9MY VE9DX VE9CKR VE1ASJ


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