[RSM] Canada Day

[Tom Haavisto]

OK

Well colour me stupid for not looking at 3830 and seeing that VE5MX smoked
N8OO, I am in third place.....
Guess he wanted to see how the rest of us did before posting his score.

Great job by VE5MX!!!



Tom - VE3CX




On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 12:40 AM Tom Haavisto <kamham69 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, that was FUN!
>
> I have a new SO2R box, and I am still working out some issues (SSB
> audio).  I built the cables, and no TX audio.  So - I took the audio out of
> my PC, and split it to both radios.  Radio 1 was not happy.  So - plugged a
> headset into it, and TX audio was fine.  Anyway - that is the interesting
> thing about contests - you find what does not work well in your station,
> you work around it, and post contest, you figure out a better solution.  A
> work in progress.  CW audio switching was awesome!  Ignore TX radio audio
> (both ears on RX radio during TX), then back to split when TX is done.
> Once I work out TX audio issues, I should be in good shape.
>
> Conditions were not great.  I did NOT check 10 meters.  That may have been
> a mistake, as I see the band may have been open, and a bunch of mults were
> to be had.  Great job by N8OO!  I see he beat me on mults - SSB mults!  So
> - IF I had checked 10, and picked up some mults, maybe the results would be
> different.
>
> Many thanks to Cary and Ed for the move to SSB and extra mults!!  Bottom
> line being - move mults!  It made the difference in this one.
>
> On a brighter note, when I saw conditions were in the crapper, I pressed
> hard to beat my 2015 results.  Pushed hard, and beat my 2015 score on Q's
> but not mults.  In 2015, I had a broken rotor.  All in all - a good result.
>
> Tom - VE3CX
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 11:37 PM Jack Parker <vhfplus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Just a reminder that the Canada Day event starts at 0000UTC (7PM CT
>> Sunday
>> evening). I will be on and concentrating on 80, 40 and 20 meters with an
>> occasional check of 160. Hope to work many of you!
>>
>> Rules can be found here:
>>
>> https://wp.rac.ca/rac-canada-day-contest-rules-2019/
>>
>>
>> --
>> 73,
>>
>> Jack, VE3RUA/K0JP
>> Shelley, K7MKL
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