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Contesting

The DELARA Contest team

Contest Reports Well the inverted L at the ARC seems to be working pretty good. I participated in the SP for about 3 hours on and off. Everything seemed to work OK. I thought of something though, it would be easy to work multi operator using the FT2000RC emulation since more than one person can log in at a time. At any rate here is my score: STEWPERRY Summary Sheet Start Date : 2018-12-29 CallSign Used : WD8KNC Operator(s) : WD8KNC Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 160M Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : EN80 Gridsquare : EN80JA Club: Delara Contest Team Name : George Band QSOs Pts Pt/Q 1.8 100 368 3.7 Total 100 368 3.7 RAC, eh The RAC contest is a really fun way to wrap up the year. I don’t know how long I participated; it wasn’t more than 6 hours, I don’t think: Band QSOs Pts Sec Pt/Q 3.5 23 142 2 6.2 7 79 404 5 5.1 14 27 152 7 5.6 21 2 12 1 6.0 Total 131 710 15 5.4 Score : 10,650 All CW, of course. I don’t think I worked anybody locally. Saturday morning, despite the K index sitting at 3, I made a few contacts with Europe. Friday evening, 40 meters had some QSB and 80 meters was kind of noisy Friday and Saturday. Whoever was in Prince Edward Island was running pretty slow and had tons of stations calling which slowed him down even more. I did work VY1AAA in Wednesday’s CWT when W1VE was operating remotely. Did not hear them this weekend. No top-band antenna here, although I tried to transmit but was probably putting just a watt or two out and I was afraid of blowing up what I did have. I was surprised to work JD1BMH in Ogasawara yesterday evening on 20 meters. For some reason, it is hard for me to be heard on 20 but he came right back to me. I’m not sure where that place is, I assume some island around Japan. It is a bit more than a couple of stone throws away from here. I see the guy does not use LoTW so I have a dilemma. Sending a card will involve some coin with postage, green stamps and card checker fees. Guess I won’t bother; not likely that I’ll be sniffing any nice awards before propagation picks back up. If one believes some of the stuff out there, it might not come back very much. Guess it’s time to scrape the rust off of the straight key for tomorrow night/Tuesday. TU es 73 de Joe AA8TA

More parks on the air

The Radio Amateurs of Canada and Parks Canada have recently announced the Canadian National Parks on the Air (CNPOTA) operating event. The CNPOTA event will run from 00:00 UTC January 1, 2019 until 23:59 UTC December 31, 2019. Its goals are to: 1. To promote Canada’s National Parks and National Historic Sites to the world. 2. To promote Amateur Radio portable operation creating activity on the air from as many of the officially-listed Parks Canada Administrated units as possible. Also we need people from their home QTH to chase these activations. All licensed radio amateurs are invited to participate. For more information on the event, including rules and a list of frequently-asked questions, visit the CNPOTA website. Once the event gets underway, the website will have news about activations, a leader board, and a a gallery of photos taken at Canadian national parks.
DELARANews

Contesting

The DELARA Contest team

Contest Reports Well the inverted L at the ARC seems to be working pretty good. I participated in the SP for about 3 hours on and off. Everything seemed to work OK. I thought of something though, it would be easy to work multi operator using the FT2000RC emulation since more than one person can log in at a time. At any rate here is my score: STEWPERRY Summary Sheet Start Date : 2018-12-29 CallSign Used : WD8KNC Operator(s) : WD8KNC Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 160M Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : EN80 Gridsquare : EN80JA Club: Delara Contest Team Name : George Band QSOs Pts Pt/Q 1.8 100 368 3.7 Total 100 368 3.7 RAC, eh The RAC contest is a really fun way to wrap up the year. I don’t know how long I participated; it wasn’t more than 6 hours, I don’t think: Band QSOs Pts Sec Pt/Q 3.5 23 142 2 6.2 7 79 404 5 5.1 14 27 152 7 5.6 21 2 12 1 6.0 Total 131 710 15 5.4 Score : 10,650 All CW, of course. I don’t think I worked anybody locally. Saturday morning, despite the K index sitting at 3, I made a few contacts with Europe. Friday evening, 40 meters had some QSB and 80 meters was kind of noisy Friday and Saturday. Whoever was in Prince Edward Island was running pretty slow and had tons of stations calling which slowed him down even more. I did work VY1AAA in Wednesday’s CWT when W1VE was operating remotely. Did not hear them this weekend. No top-band antenna here, although I tried to transmit but was probably putting just a watt or two out and I was afraid of blowing up what I did have. I was surprised to work JD1BMH in Ogasawara yesterday evening on 20 meters. For some reason, it is hard for me to be heard on 20 but he came right back to me. I’m not sure where that place is, I assume some island around Japan. It is a bit more than a couple of stone throws away from here. I see the guy does not use LoTW so I have a dilemma. Sending a card will involve some coin with postage, green stamps and card checker fees. Guess I won’t bother; not likely that I’ll be sniffing any nice awards before propagation picks back up. If one believes some of the stuff out there, it might not come back very much. Guess it’s time to scrape the rust off of the straight key for tomorrow night/Tuesday. TU es 73 de Joe AA8TA