Canada Winter Contest 1999
Callsign Used : VE3KZ
Category : SOAB HP Unlimited
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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160CW 11 11 86 5
160SSB 15 15 102 4
80CW 70 69 404 9
80SSB 173 171 1472 10
40CW 116 116 652 9
40SSB 176 173 1300 11
20CW 106 106 556 10
20SSB 188 186 1438 11
15CW 95 93 414 8
15SSB 198 198 916 10
10CW 77 77 454 9
10SSB 205 205 1048 11
6CW 1 1 10 1
6SSB 12 12 104 1
2CW 1 1 10 1
2SSB 1 1 10 1
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Totals 1445 1435 8976 111
Preliminary Score = 996,336 points.
A few, maybe more, comments on the contest. Of, course I was aiming for One
Million and came within 4 VE Q?s or one multiplier of the goal. The score is
probably still a new record for the Winter RAC Contest, log checking still
to come. Nice to set both this and the Canada Day record in the same year.
Now on to other things, the competition says!
Thanks to Fred HS0ZAA for the Q at 23:50! Pleasant surprise! Also to VE8RAC
for calling me on 40 at 23:14 and moving to 20 for a double multiplier, and
to VE2ZP for asking me if I needed any VE2 mults and then moving to 160 CW
for a new one. It?s nice to have someone out there doing your thinking for
you after 23 hours. And then there were VE9KM and VE1ACU both in NB who
responded to my request much earlier to a last minute multiplier try near
the end of the contest on 80CW. 4 Mults in the last hour, after only 1/hr
in the previous 3 hours.
I strongly suspect that the Stew Perry, plus mediocre conditions on 160 were
largely responsible for not making a higher score. 160 multiplier was 9 in
the Winter versus 19 on July 1st. How?s that for an inversion! Ten of course
saved the day, as expected, with 20 mults versus 3 in the summer.
And now some stats for those so inclined:
- 160 band changes between the 16 SSB and CW "bands", about 40 Q's max
between band changes
- Best hour was hour #2 with 109 Q's
- Greatest change in score due to rate and new mults was hour 16 with the
10m opening to VE with 81 Q and 8 new mults
- 474 CW and 961 SSB, 33% vs 67%
- Canada and Outside Canada QSO?s virtually equal
Again a real pleasure to work all those 700+ Canadian Q?s, the 300+ W?s and
400+ DX stations, and of course 37 RAC stations QSO?s. Congratulations to
all the other competitors and the casual operators that make it all
worthwhile.
73 Bob VE3KZ
ve3kz@rac.ca
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