RAC Winter Contest
Call: VE6RAC
Operator(s): VA6MA, VE6OH, VE6TR, VE6TCK, VE6WQ, VE6BF, VA6DX (+SONS DAVYN AND
BRYSEN), TI2WGO, VE6JY
Station: VE6JY
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Lamont, Ab
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs CW Mults Ph Mults
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160: 166 40 9 7
80: 267 293 10 12
40: 476 516 11 13
20: 656 850 11 12
15: 372 656 11 12
10: 371 822 11 11
6: 1 1
2: 1 6 1 1
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Total: 2309 3184 64 69 Total Score = 3,314,094
Club:
Comments:
Band Mode QSOs Pts Sec
1.8 CW 166 672 9
1.8 LSB 40 272 7
3.5 CW 267 1304 10
3.5 LSB 293 2348 12
7 CW 476 1984 11
7 LSB 516 2518 13
14 CW 656 2320 11
14 USB 850 4234 12
21 CW 372 1550 11
21 USB 656 3060 12
28 CW 371 1550 11
28 USB 823 3026 11
50 USB 1 10 1
144 CW 1 10 1
144 FM 6 60 1
Total Both 5494 24918 133
Score: 3,314,094
Still a few edits to change and to add a few missed QSO's that got paper logged
in the heat of battle!
Biggest change from last year was a 3rd CW op (Tnx Will TI2WGO) so we added a
3rd full time CW station. Obviously 10m was expected to be a factor this year
and it sure was - opened well before daybreak and was a bottomless source of
callers most of the day.
Did not have enough ops to man all the stations all the time so instead of
having SSB and CW stations operating simultaneously on all the open bands we
had to flip the main station for that band back and forth, so we may have
missed a few because of that. Spent virtually no time on 6 or 2 either, either
than a short time when Barry VA6DX got his young boys (8 and 10 yrs old I think)
to send out some CQ's on 2m FM. They were keen on doing this and they got a few
answers and hopefully they can be back next year to expand on that.
Murphy stayed away but still had several problems (all self inflicted by me)
that caused lots of issues with N1MM and the network. The error windows had to
be cleared before one could log or send CW so these were a MAJOR pain and we
had to solve the issue that was causing this. It turned out that one of the 10
computers in the network had a much older N1MM version on it which caused the
errors - wasn't looking for that as I made SURE that I had put the latest (and,
most importantly the same version) on every computer or so I thought I had
until I was checking the basics at about 3 am! Of course that was the busy 40m
ssb station so couldn't do any checking until they ran out of signals for a
bit. Also one UPS was overloaded and crashed several hours into the contest
and that took down the network and several computers and added to our already
problematic issues with N1MM. No QSO's were lost but some certainly weren't
made as we were short handed so I couldn't operate and network troubleshoot at
the same time.
Fortunately the RF hardware behaved fine, all ICOM flavoured radios and a
variety of amplifiers - well throttled back as I only have a 7.5 KVA electrical
service with which to run 8 HF stations on. Propagation seemed very good on all
bands, no weather QRN here or QRM other what we created locally from having 8 HF
stations running at the same time.
I had predicted/expected/hoped for 5000 Q's before we started and somewhere
above 3 million points. The record from here of 4311 q's and ~2.7 meg was set
way back in '97 and we just haven't had the conditions to get close since until
yesterday, even with a LOT more antennas to choose from now.
Great to say to hi to all the familiar calls and to help wave the RAC flag for
a very enjoyable winter contesting event!
73 Don
VE6JY
with ops- Mitch VE6OH Rob VE6TR Maurice VE6MAA/VA6MA
Barry VA6DX and sons Davyn and Brysen
Neil VE6TCK and bringer of the chili
CW from Bill VE6BF Joel VE6WQ and Will TI2WGO
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