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2008 RAC CANADA WINTER CONTEST
In December each year, Radio Amateurs of
Canada (RAC) sponsors the Canada Winter
Contest. Amateurs all over the world are
invited to participate.
Contest Period: 0000 UTC to 2359 UTC
December 27, 2008. Next year the contest
will be held on December 19, 2009.
Bands and Modes: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10,
6 and 2 metres, CW and phone (SSB, FM,
AM, etc.)
Suggested frequencies: CW 25 kHz up
from the band edge and for SSB 1850,
3775, 7075, 7225, 14175, 21250, 28500 kHz.
Check for CW activity on the half-hour.
Exchange: Stations in Canada send RS(T)
and province or territory. VEุs and stations
outside Canada send RS(T) and a serial
number.
QSOs: Contacts with stations in Canada or
VEุs are worth 10 points. Contacts with
stations outside Canada are worth 2 points.
Contacts with RAC official stations are worth
20 points. RAC official stations are: VA2RAC,
VA3RAC, VE1RAC, VE4RAC, VE5RAC,
VE6RAC, VE7RAC, VE8RAC, VE9RAC,
VO1RAC, VO2RAC, VY0RAC, VY1RAC and
VY2RAC. You may work any station once on
each of the two modes, on each of the eight
contest bands.
It is prohibited to make CW contacts in the
conventional phone sub-bands, phone
contacts in the conventional CW sub-bands, or
to make or solicit QSOs through a repeater
during the contest period.
Multipliers: Thirteen in total, Canadas 10
provinces and three territories. Each
multiplier may be counted once on each
mode on each of the eight contest bands.
The multipliers, with their postal
abbreviations and prefixes are:
Nova Scotia [NS] (VE1, VA1, CY9, CYุ);
Quebec [QC] (VE2, VA2); Ontario [ON] (VE3,
VA3); Manitoba [MB] (VE4, VA4);
Saskatchewan [SK] (VE5, VA5); Alberta [AB]
(VE6, VA6); British Columbia [BC] (VE7, VA7);
Northwest Territories [NT] (VE8); New
Brunswick [NB] (VE9); Newfoundland and
Labrador [NL] (VO1, VO2); Nunavut [NU]
(VY0); Yukon [YT] (VY1); and Prince Edward
Island [PE] (VY2). Certain special Canadian
prefixes in use at the time of the contest may
also apply; however there may be no more
than 13 multipliers on each band/mode.
Please use the multiplier abbreviations noted
above.
Final Score: The total QSO points from all
bands multiplied by the total number of
multipliers from all bands.
Categories: The following 9 categories are
eligible for a certificate or award. Plaques will
be awarded to the top-scoring entrants in
each category. Thanks to the following for
their sponsorship:
Single Operator All Bands High Power
(>100 watts) Radioworld
Single Operator All Bands Low Power
(max. 100 watts output)
Contest Club Ontario
Single Operator QRP (max. 5 watt output)
All Bands & Single Band **
QRP Canada
Single Operator All Bands CW only,
any authorized power
Maritime Contest Club
Single Operator All Bands PH only, any
authorized power
Saskatchewan Contest Club
Single Operator Single Band,
any authorized power *** Elkel Products
Multi-Operator Single Transmitter High
Power (>100 watts) * Alfa Radio
Multi-Operator Single Transmitter Low Power
(max. 100 watts output) *
Tony Allsop VE3FTA Memorial by the
Mississauga ARC
Multi-Operator Multi-Transmitter,
any authorized power Radioworld
For the Canada Winter Contest a special
trophy is awarded for the highest Single
Operator (no power classification) Foreign
Entrant Jorge Bozzo LU8DQ Memorial by
Alan Goodacre, VE3HX.
Notes:
Where the categories have a power class and
the submitted log does not clearly identify the
power class entered, then the log will be
treated as if the highest power class for that
category was entered. Where logs do not
properly indicate the entry category, they will
be classified into the highest category.
Single operators who receive assistance from
a DX spotting system or Packet Cluster
network during the contest must classify
themselves as Multi-ops.
* In the Multi-Single category only one
transmitter and one band are permitted during
the same time period (defined as 10 minutes.)
Exception: One, and only one, other band may
be used during any 10-minute period, if and only
if the station worked is a new multiplier. In other
words the Multi-Single Transmitter class allows a
second station to hunt๖ and work multipliers only
on a separate band.
* Multi-Multi category stations may operate on
several bands simultaneously.
** Although there is only one QRP category,
which qualifies for a certificate or award, it is
intended that the published results would show
All Bands or the Single Band of operation. To
facilitate this break out of the listings, your
entry should indicate the power class you
used.
*** Although there is only one Single Operator
Single Band category that qualifies for a
certificate or award, it is intended that the
published results would show High Power or
Low Power. To facilitate this break out of the
listings, your entry should indicate the power
class you used.
Awards: Plaques will be awarded to the topscoring
entrants in each category, as noted
above with the sponsor name in bold text.
Special thanks to our sponsors for their ongoing
support! Certificates will be awarded to the topscoring
entrant in each category in each
province, territory; US call district, and DXCC
country. To facilitate the proper allocation of
certificates, all US stations should indicate their
actual US call district if different than indicated by
their call prefix. DX stations should indicate the
actual country of operation if different than
indicated by their call prefix.
Results: Will be published in The Canadian
Amateur magazine published by the Radio
Amateurs of Canada. The results will also be
published on the RAC website at
<www.rac.ca> in the contest section.
Entries: All entries
(electronic or paper logs)
must be postmarked or
electronically submitted by January 31,
2009. Electronic entries will be confirmed by
return email.
Send paper entries to:
Radio Amateurs of Canada
720 Belfast Road, Suite 217
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 0Z5
Paper mail entries must contain a summary
sheet showing score calculation, a multiplier
check sheet and logsheets.
Logsheets must show time, band, mode,
call of station worked, exchanges sent and
received and points claimed for each QSO.
New multipliers must be clearly marked in
the log.
Contest entry forms are also available on
the RAC website at <www.rac.ca>.
Send email entries to
<canadawinter@rac.ca>.
Any entry with 200 or more contacts should
be submitted in digital form, either
submitted by email or mailed in via 3.5" MSDOS/
Windows formatted diskette. The
preferred format is RAC Cabrillo in plain
ASCII/Text format. While the contest
committee prefers Cabrillo formatted
submissions, we will continue to accept
electronic logs from older versions of
contest software, but your file must be in
ASCII/Text format. Given there are several
free programs that support the RAC
contests and generate an acceptable entry,
we encourage you to seek out one of these
programs. The RAC Cabrillo format is
described and its detailed layout is shown
on the RAC website at <www.rac.ca/
downloads/raccabrillo1.pdf>.
Electronic logs should provide a summary
sheet with the same information as shown
for the paper log entries. The standard
summary sheet provided by the typical
logging program is generally acceptable,
but you should confirm that it contains the
same information as shown for paper log
entries. A properly filled out Cabrillo
header section will be sufficient for logs
submitted in that format.
Please ensure that you completely fill out
the header information in the Cabrillo file.
Name your file with your Call Sign and the
file extension .LOG (e.g., yourcall.LOG). If
you email your log, please send the file(s)
as attachments. Do not paste the log file
into the text of your message. This is often
impossible to extract correctly.
Large files may be zipped if necessary. If
you need help with preparing or emailing
your log, please contact Sam Ferris,
VE5SF, at <ve5sf@rac.ca>.
For the previous years contest results,
visit the RAC website in the contesting
sections. We will also be publishing a list
of submitted logs and the categories
entered on the RAC website after the cutoff
date to assist in correcting any entry
categorizations.
Please send email entries to
<canadawinter@rac.ca>.
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