[3830] RAC Day VA7ST SOAB/CW HP

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                    RAC Canada Day Contest

Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST

Class: SOAB/CW HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  CW Mults  Ph Mults
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  160:    4              2          
   80:   22              4          
   40:  104              9          
   20:  202             10          
   15:   14              1          
   10:                              
    6:                              
    2:                              
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Total:  346     0       26         0  Total Score = 46,748

Club: 

Comments:

* FT-2000 + SB221
* 3 element SteppIR @ 27'
* 40M SteppIR dipole @ 27'
* 80M 2-element vertical array E or W

2011 SFI = 89   A = 12   K = 2
2010 SFI = 74   A = 17   K = 4

Not a lot to cheer about in this one but had some fun as always. Figured a
Friday running would be better than a mid-week event, but it didn't seem to
help participation much. The CW end of the bands had plenty of room for more!
Ended up putting in just 10 hours or so. More to work would have kept me in the
chair longer.

Watched the Aurora level move from 6 to 10 and back to 6, and the bands played
exactly as expected with those conditions. Lousy. Worked precisely one European
station, a loud DL in the final hour, but there were no others when I called
over the pole.

Huge thanks to everyone who got on, even for a few contacts. 

Favo(u)rite moments: being called by VE8s from NT on 40M and 20M, and saying
hello to so many friends, even with just a dit-dit.

Glad Ralph VE7XF moved me to 160M for a BC mult, as I added AB not long
afterward -- making for two more on 160 than I had last year. Not nearly enough
mults found on 80M or 15M. 

Once again, too few RAC stations ventured into CW mode -- kudos to the three I
worked: VE5RAC, VA3RAC and VE8RAC. Hope there were more on than that.

Band          Total         2        10        20
===========   =======     ===       ===       ===
1.8           4             1         3         0             
3.5           22           13         8         1             
7             104          58        45         1             
14            202         129        71         2             
21            14           13         0         1 
=================================================            
Total         346         214       127         5             

Ended up a long way from my best-ever with high power:

Year  CW     Ph     Mults        Score
2011: 346     0       26         46,748 HP
2010: 292     0       17         22,576 HP
2009: 475     0       30         72,720 HP
2008: 306     0       29         47,908 HP
2007: 612     0       25         61,750 HP
2006: 445     0       23         45,218
2005: 167     0       16         12,800
2004: 160     0       15         13,800
2003: 126     0       23         19,642

See everyone in IARU next weekend (and in a few hours for DLDX RTTY... great
way to spend some long-weekend time if your weather's not so good).

-- Bud VA7ST

http://www.orcadxcc.org
http://www3.telus.net/va7st


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