[3830] RAC Day W1NN SOAB LP

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                    RAC Canada Day Contest

Call: W1NN
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: W1NN

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Ohio
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  CW Mults  Ph Mults
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  160:   10      3       3         2
   80:   51     35       7         7
   40:  100     28       9         5
   20:  175    164      10        11
   15:   44      6       7         1
   10:    9      0       1         0
    6:                              
    2:                              
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Total:  389    236      37        26  Total Score = 243,936

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

That was a lot of fun!  Thanks to the sponsors for holding a great event.

My goal this year was to improve on my 2010 score and I managed to accomplish
this:

2010 (final):   439 QSOs, 65 mults and 201,500 points
2011 (claimed): 625 QSOs, 63 mults and 243,936 points 

It looks like the main difference with last year is that I put in about 6 more
hours in the chair this year.  

15 QSO’s with the RAC stations both last year and this year.  VE5RAC wins the
prize for the most QSO’s with me:  five.  Great to work VE8RAC on both modes
on 20.  VA3RAC was also very active.

I spent a lot of time chasing multipliers since they are so important in this
contest but I still came up two less than last year despite more op time.  The
reason seemed to be fewer mults available on 15 and 10.  When (if?) 10 and 15
ever open up wide for this contest, the old records will probably be blown out
of the water.

80 and 160 were very noisy on Saturday night but underlying conditions were
actually very good and west coast signals were strong.  I had no trouble
working VE6 & VE7 on 80 plus lots of CA stations.  N6RO was really booming in
on 160.  

I don’t operate phone very often so I don’t have any kind of voice
recorder.  After a couple of hours calling CQ on phone my voice was really
showing signs of wear.  “CQ Canada Day Contest” is quite a mouthful!  

Very happy to have 6-banders with VE1RGB and K4BAI, two radio friends going
back many years.  My special thanks to ‘RGB for offering to move to 10 for my
only 10 meter mult.  In addition to 6 CW contacts with ‘BAI, I also had 3 SSB
contacts with John for a total of 9 Q’s!

The station is a K3 and dipoles.  

Already looking forward to next year!

73, Hal W1NN
Medina, Ohio


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