RAC(VE) Winter Contest
Call: VE2ZP
Operator(s): VE2ZP
Station: VE2ZP
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: QC
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Mults
Band QSOs CW Phone
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160: 70 9 8
80: 270 10 10
40: 310 10 10
20: 347 12 12
15: 286 11 11
10: 308 11 11
6: 9 2 2
2: 5 2 2
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Total: 1565 67 66 = 1,209,768
Club:
Comments:
I had a great time in this contest. Conditions were
excellent, save for poor propagation to the west on 160m.
There was enough short skip or backscatter on the high bands to make it easy to
scoop up the multipliers in the Martimes and Newfoundland-Labrador. Activity
was very high, despite the cock-up in publicising the date (TCA had it wrong!),
finding people to use CW was not a big problem, there was loads of serious
overseas participation.
Six metres was a big temptation, as it was full of strong
Europeans, but I caught no Canadians outside VE2 and VE3. Ralph VE7XF told me
he worked VE1, VY2 and VO1, but nothing closer.
I never worked a VY1, my only Nunavut was VY0RAC (VY0CW/VO1CBS op), but he was
20m only. VE8RAC moved obligingly around the high bands, but I landed most
everything else. Thanks to Robby VY2SS for provding almost all my PEI
multipliers.
For the Marconi Centenary Contest, I worked 168 UK stations.
This is a personal best (one mult down from my all-time best of 134), but not a
record. Due to another obligation, I had to be off the air from 1800 to 2000.
I'm sure that made the the difference between setting the record and not doing
so. With those two hours, I might have made 1.5Meg. The record is:
1676 QSOs 129 Mul 1,344,180 set last year by Todd VE5MX at
VE6JY.
I don't know who my competition was. All the most likely candidates seemed to
be in different categories, or operating part-time.
Dave VE2ZP
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