[3830] VE6JY RAC CANADA DAY m/op
Don Moman
ve6jy at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Sat Jul 4 01:33:12 EDT 1998
RAC SUMMARY SHEET
Callsign Used : VE6JY
Operators : VE6'S:LDX FR SLV VQ RIT
SRV BCA MK JTM DXX
BF BLA DGG AQE JG
YIC JY
Category : multi-op
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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160CW 9 8 102 5
160SSB 17 17 192 5
80CW 34 34 348 7
80SSB 128 123 1194 7
40CW 152 149 934 10
40SSB 173 169 1624 10
20CW 408 387 1992 11
20SSB 1208 1164 6402 12
15CW 183 182 820 10
15SSB 702 695 2844 11
10CW 12 12 92 4
10SSB 74 74 256 4
6CW 11 11 88 3
6SSB 24 23 152 3
2CW 6 6 70 2
2SSB 61 59 590 2
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Totals 3202 3113 17700 106
Final Score = 1,876,200 points.
Soapbox.....
Our biggest effort so far in any summer RAC test - 17 operators, plus lots of
spectators as well. We were hoping for 2 meg total score but just couldn't
do it, but we did manage to surprise our old record of 1.837 meg (set
using VC6RAC two years ago). The weather was a big factor - we had reports of
severe thunderstorms / tornados within 10 miles of us just before the start of
the contest, so the low bands were full of static crashes for most of the
evening, only getting better in the early dawn. Around 1800 utc we had more
weather, with severe precipitation static frequently drowning out everything on
20 and 15m for nearly two hours. The high antennas captured most of the noise
so by switching to other lower and thus shielded beams, we managed to work
through most of it.
This was basically a 7 station operation: 2m, 6m, and 5 HF. We ran 4 SSB and 1
CW station until noon or so, then closed out the contest running 3 SSB and 2CW.
Software was TRlog and all sites were networked, and worked perfectly.
Propagation was quite decent, with good conditions on 20 and 15m. Even managed
to work lots of VE's on 15 all thru the evening, and then Europe all night on
both 15 and 20. We had hoped for more on 10m but that may have been my fault -
we spent a lot of time CQ'ing with no antenna - the Heath SB-1000 amp loaded up
30 feet of heliax very well! It survived the ordeal fine and once we had an
antenna connected, the band came alive, but by then we likely had missed any
chance to work any of the easterly VE mults. 6 meters brought less than we
had hoped (conditions were too good the week prior to the contest, so I knew it
wouldn't last, hi!) but we did work a pair of strong VE4's for a nice bonus
mult.
Most QSO's with one station - VE6RAC - all 16, followed closely by VE5RI with
15 Q's (missed on 20CW) and most of them being mults too. Many thanks to VY1RAC
for 12 Q's - all HF bands, both modes. We tried on 6 but no joy. VE2ZP, VE5RAC
and N6RO were worked 9 times and if we would have had a 10m antenna connected,
maybe it would have been 11....
73, Don
VE6JY
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 2 16 76 517 324 68 1003
VE calls = 23 141 222 636 225 17 1264
N.A. calls = 0 0 3 7 9 0 19
S.A. calls = 0 0 10 14 7 0 31
Euro calls = 0 0 1 275 277 0 553
Afrc calls = 0 0 0 3 11 0 14
Asia calls = 0 0 0 8 3 0 11
JA calls = 0 0 0 64 7 0 71
Ocen calls = 0 0 7 26 14 1 48
Total calls = 25 157 319 1552 878 86 3017
82 DXCC countries worked in total.
QSO Distribution
1. 788 stations gave us 001
2. On 460
4. Bc 210
5. Ab 177
7. Pq 133
9. Sk 91
10. Ns 87
11. Mb 58
12. Nf 52
13. Nb 49
18. Yu 21
26. Pe 8
51. Nt 2
VE6JY Don Moman email: ve6jy at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Box 127 Lamont, Alberta email forwarding: ve6jy at rac.ca
T0B 2R0 (403) 895-2925
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