Canada Winter Contest 2000 Results

Dave Shipman VE7CFD
RAC Winter Contest Manager

Detailed Results info

·       Single Op All Bands (High Power)

·       Single Op Low Power

·       Single Op QRP

·       Single Op Single Band

·       Multi Op

·       Operators at Multi-Ops

Some interesting data to share with you all

                              1999          2000          Change

Entrants                    213          331            55%

Email Entries              47           135            26%

Canada                    129           163            26%

RAC                             5              9            80%

DX                             44             96          118%

US                             42             69            64%

Total Q’s              52,354      68,540            31%                   

Six  New Records!!
Todd VE5MX(at VE6JY)  broke the Single Op All Band record by some 348k with his new record of 1,344,180. Sam VE5SF set a new Low Power record 32k points above the old one. John VE3JC improved the QRP record by 80k. Alan VA2ADB set a new 6 meter record with 568 points. Frank VE7AV improved on the 20 meter record by 15k. Vitaly VE6JO moved the 40m record up by 918 points. Congratulations to our new record holders!

Record Scores

Single Op All Bands (High Power)
The top three this year all broke the old record. Todd VE6JY(op VE5MX) led the way with 1,344,180 points followed by John VE3EJ with 1,223,520 and Dave VE2ZP with 1,051,392. Fourth spot was taken by Ken N6RO.

Single Op Low Power
Again this category is the most popular with 129 participants. Sam VE5SF retains his first place from last year while improving the record by 32k. Sam was 440K ahead of second place Ralph VE7XF, Third was Yury VE3ZPD followed by Paul VE3ZT in fourth place.

Single Op QRP
John VE3JC took first place and broke the old record by 80k. In the past 3 years John has gone from third to second to first, great work John! Taking second spot was Bob VE3KZ followed by Andrew VA3CRA. Both Bob and Andrew broke the old record by 23k and 18k respectively.

Single Op Single Band
Brian VY2MGY/3 was the single entrant on 160m. Joe VE3MG again takes first place on 80m with Richard VA3FC in second followed by Garth VE1JAX third and Tom VE3YTN fourth.  Vitaly VE6JO led on 40m with a new record followed by Alexandre VA3TTT who also beat the old record. Third was Mark VE2JT and Gerard VO1WIZ fourth. Frank VE7AV improved on the 20 meter record by 15k and took first place followed by Gerry VE7KD, Boyd VY0CW in third and Wally VE3VHH. Norm VA3MO led on 15m followed by Eric VE3MQW in second, David VE3UZ was third and Alex VE7RG fourth. Greg VE7NNN took first place on 10m followed by Ron VE7NS, Doug VE5UF and Jeff VA3QSL. Alan VA2ADB took first in 6m followed by Kevin VA7MM and Pierre VE2PIJ. Jeffrey VA3JFF was the sole entrant on 2m.

Multi-Op
Over 107 operators took part in the Multi-Op class. The  Hamilton ARC VE3DC moved up from second last  year to take first place and were followed by Bill and the VE5RAC crew who  took second place.  Ed led VE7SCC to third and the Cambridge ARC took Fourth.

Check Logs
Were received from DL1JFM, DL3LBZ, DM3XI, OK1DSU, OK2BNC, PA3GZC, SP6CES, SP9PRO, VA3JFF, VE2JCW, VE3BZY and VE3TMZ.

Plaque Winners
Single Operator All Bands -  Radioworld   VE6JY (op. VE5MX)  Todd Bendtsen  
Single Operator Low Power - Durham Radio  VE5SF Sam Ferris
Single Operator Single Band - Elkel Products - VE7AV  Frank Vanderzande   Single Operator QRP - QRP Canada – VE3JC John Cumming
Top Scoring Foreign Entrant – Alan Goodacre VE3HX  N6RO Ken Keeler
Multi-Operator – Radioworld  VE3DC  H.A.R.C. Contest Group  

Click here for Soapbox Comments