[3830] RAC Day WB0TEV SOAB/Ph HP

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                    RAC Canada Day Contest - 2020

Call: WB0TEV
Operator(s): WB0TEV
Station: WB0TEV

Class: SOAB/Ph HP
QTH: NTX
Operating Time (hrs): 14:45

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  CW Mults  Ph Mults
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  160:                              
   80:           6                 4
   40:         149                 9
   20:         515                13
   15:          23                 7
   10:                              
    6:                              
    2:                              
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Total:   0     693       0        33  Total Score = 168,234

Club: DFW Contest Group

Comments:

I managed to record most (but not all) of my QSOs and you can play them back and
hear what you sounded like by going to my qrz.com page and plugging your (or
anyone else's) call sign into the applet on the page.  If you sound a little
robotic its because the QRN was often so bad down here that I had noise
reduction signal processing engaged much of the time.

Condx: TS-590SG, SDRduo panadapter, Dentron MLA-2500 amp, Mosley PRO-67B at 63
feet, 80m inverted V at 60 feet. 

Conditions were very noisy, even on 20m at times.  Only managed a half dozen
QSOs on 80m, I hope to have a couple beverages up in time for the RAC Winter
contest.  

While on 40m Tuesday night the old Dentron MLA-2500 amp I was using let out a
SNAP! and thereafter produced no output power.  Fortunately I remembered that I
had a second one of those down in the workshop so spent a half hour digging it
out and swapping it in.  I guess I have a repair project for later.

Highlight of the contest was having VY0FC call in to my 20m run allowing a sweep
of all 13 provinces/territories on 20m.   VY1RAC supplied YT and both VE8NSD and
VE8RAC called in for NT.  Was happy to come across VE1RAC on 40m in the closing
minutes for a final mult.  

With a little more than an hour to go before the end, I was all but certain I
wouldn't be able to exceed my score from last year.  It seemed I'd worked all
that could be had on 20m and mistakenly thought that it was too early for 40m to
be productive but I went down there anyway and slowly but surely had my thinking
corrected.  Signals were weak, but VE3's and a few VE2s and VE9s were workable
and lo and behold I managed to top last years raw score by about 12,000 points.
I worked more QSOs this year but the mult count was down from 38 to 33.  In 2019
I was able to move a number of mults from 15 to 10m but this year I was lucky
just to get some successful 20 to 15m moves.  With one or two exceptions, all of
 my 15m QSOs were the result of moving folks from 20m.

Mult breakdown as follows:
AB, BC, ON, & SK worked on 80/40/20/15
MB & NB worked on 40/20/15
NL worked on 20/15
NS, PE & QC worked on 40/20
NT, NU & YT worked on 20 only.

Overall points per Q was 7.4 so about 2/3 of the QSos were with VE's.

See you in the RAC Winter Contest in December!
73, Victor WB0TEV


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