2005 Results

Glenn Wyant, VA3DX captured the first place SO-AB-HP, form his home QTH with a score of 505,750. Second went to Garry Hammond VE3XN with a score of 469,204. Pat Sonnier, W5WMU took 3^rd place with a score of 390,184 while Matt Thomas WX5S joined the top scorers in 4^th place scoring 382,800. Mitch Mason, K7RL, captured fifth place in the SOABHP category with a score of 331,453.

Sam Ferris VE5SF returned to first place this year with a score of 468,432. Sylvan Katz VE5ZX captured second place by scoring 412,128. Doug Freestone VE5UF captured 3^rd place in the winter contest with a score of 383,916. Ralph Parker, VE7XF Took 4^th place while Bob Hawkins VE3WG took 5^th.

With a score of 70,980 Richard Thompson, VE7XT captured the SOSB crown this year. Louis Paquet, VE2BQB once again took second place with a score of 54,306. Third place was taken by Alexander Sherman, W6AFA, with a score 23,400. Richard, Louis and Alexander all entered the contest using the 20-metre band. Jeff Richardson, VA3YY, took top band honours with a score of 3,514. Tom Haavistor, VE3CX gained 1^st place in 80M with a score of 22,560 using high power. Julio Castellano, VE3FH, took first place on 40-metres with a low power entry scoring 15,084. Honours for 15-metre Single-Op were taken by Jack Cantrell, AB0OX, from New Jersey. John Choo, VE7JRX, captured first place in the 2-metre band. There were no single operator entrants in the 10-metre or 6-metre bands.

Thomas Warren, K3TW captured first place in the SO-AB-QRP category with a score of 108,784, up from 3^rd place last year. Second place was taken by Doug Ferris, VA3DF closely behind with a score of 100,110. 7NI Bill O’Kain K4LTA took 3^rd place scoring 68,416. John Noakes, VE7NI took 4^th place this year with a good QRP score of 43,008, ahead of Robert MacKenzie, VA3RKM in 5^thscoring 24,732.

This year operators of KCARC at VE1LD, claimed the Multi-single high power category with a score of 316,948. Second place in the category went to the operators of W8BD with a score of 169,176.

The operators of Contest Club Ontario at VE3MIS took top honours in the popular new Multi-Single Low Power category with a score of 177,590. Operators at VE2CQ took second place with a score of 169,000.

In a repeat performance, operators of VE6RAC from the QTH of Don Moman (VE6JY) captured the MM category with score of 1,255,296. Operators of the Calgary Amateur Radio Association at VE6AO took second place in the category with a score of 652,374.

Your contest managers sincerely appreciate the increased use of Cabrillo based log entries. Cabrillo files significantly reduce the workload associated with producing the contest results. Current versions of popular contest programs such as CT, NA and TR produce Cabrillo files that can be readily handled by our scoring software. Dedicated free of cost, DOS based software available from the RAC website also produces readily usable reports. As in the past we will continue to accept paper logs and other electronic logging formats so it is easy for everyone to send in an entry. As we continue to develop log-checking processes, we would appreciate, if possible, receiving your Cabrillo logs and summary sheets providing a breakdown of VE, RAC, DX contact and a multiplier total. This will make compiling and checking of logs an easier and quicker process.

Thanks to all for participating in the 2005 running of the Canada Winter Contest and good luck in 2006. Operator comments are available on the RAC website.

SINGLE OPERATOR ALL BANDS LOW POWER CALL CDN RAC DX MULT QSO's SCORE VE5SF 529 22 388 72 939 468,432** VE5ZX 424 16 582 72 1022 412,128 VE5UF 356 19 491 78 866 383,916 VE7XF 343 18 261 72 622 310,464* VE3WG 287 16 281 62 584 232,624* VE2XAA 247 16 398 61 661 218,746* VE3JM 250 16 218 65 484 211,640 VE3CRU 200 14 132 53 346 134,832 VE3TW 172 14 111 55 297 122,210 VE4MG 263 16 262 35 541 121,590* VE1RGB 196 8 378 42 582 120,792* VE1DHD 344 11 304 26 659 110,968 VA3QR 162 18 81 50 261 107,100 VE7ALN 157 13 111 50 281 102,600 VE7WU 145 16 24 54 185 98,172 VE1RAC 203 6 158 38 367 93,708 VE1SKY 270 11 98 25 379 77,900 VE3XAT 150 12 97 38 259 73,492 W4YE 128 11 66 45 205 73,440* VE3JAQ 133 8 166 38 307 69,236 VE3VMP 120 12 63 44 195 68,904 VO1HE 129 10 104 39 243 66,222* VE1NB 129 5 318 32 452 64,832 K0HW 117 11 86 50 214 64,042* AA4FU 105 16 50 42 171 61,740 VA3WSN 157 11 20 33 188 60,390 VE1AWP 131 5 175 34 311 59,840 VE3OXX 89 11 37 45 137 53,280 VE3TPZ 113 13 19 33 145 47,124 VE3GSI 114 5 182 29 301 46,516 VE3XD 88 6 55 41 149 45,510 WK2G 123 7 228 24 358 43,824 VA3JNO 85 11 91 35 187 43,820 W2LHL 101 10 20 34 131 42,500* VE3SMA 92 8 59 34 159 40,732 VA3PB 102 12 17 31 131 40,114 NG7Z 115 5 116 27 236 40,014* VA3YT 92 8 34 34 134 39,032 VA5SAM 74 13 0 38 87 38,000 K4UK 74 8 31 37 113 35,594 VA3EC 92 6 116 27 214 34,344 VA7BEC 110 5 105 24 220 33,840 VA2SG 137 5 28 22 170 33,572 XM5BCS 131 4 79 21 214 32,508 VE3NQM 76 13 13 29 102 30,334 VA2UK 88 14 23 25 125 30,150 K0XI 92 4 91 28 187 29,550 K4WW 72 8 80 27 160 28,080 VE3JAH 85 12 11 25 108 27,800 VA3EWP 62 10 34 31 106 27,528 VA3PCJ 80 12 14 25 106 26,700 VA3SX 68 11 26 28 105 26,656 VE3RLO 82 9 4 26 95 26,208 CU2JT 65 8 47 28 120 25,312* VE3AAS 72 6 0 30 78 25,200 VA7MJR 92 6 46 22 144 24,904 VA3RSA 73 8 16 26 97 23,972 VE3GKB 56 9 18 30 83 23,280 VE3GNU 87 12 22 20 121 23,080 WN6K 70 4 81 22 155 20,724* K9JWI 62 7 48 24 117 20,544* K1EP 65 8 61 22 134 20,504* AE1T 54 6 58 26 118 20,176 WB8JUI 60 5 50 25 115 20,000* VO1MX 87 9 26 17 122 18,734 KA8Q/4 64 10 0 22 74 18,480 W1END 64 3 80 19 147 16,340 VE3XRC 74 5 9 19 225 16,302 WR8Y 53 7 0 24 60 16,080 VE3MND 84 5 22 16 111 15,744 W9QL 78 3 15 18 96 15,660 VE3FYN 60 7 16 20 83 15,440 VA6XDX 41 3 106 22 150 15,004* VA3MAH 54 6 9 22 69 14,916 VE3TLY 75 6 15 16 96 14,400 VA3RGR 51 9 10 20 70 14,200 VE3UKR 66 5 58 16 129 14,016 NS3T 56 4 42 19 102 13,756* K0MPH 44 4 8 24 56 12,864 VE2DWA 32 7 12 26 51 12,584 VE3FZ 41 5 20 22 66 12,100 EA8ASJ 32 4 172 16 208 11,904* VA3IX 41 5 22 21 68 11,634 AB2TC 58 5 18 14 81 10,024 VE4MD 51 6 9 15 66 9,720 K2PT 34 7 18 17 59 8,772 VE9CX 44 4 12 15 60 8,160* VE3OM 30 5 21 17 56 7,514 VE4GOM 59 4 6 11 69 7,502 VA3NQ 39 5 4 15 48 7,470 VA3HUN 30 5 32 16 67 7,424 VE3VO 24 5 17 18 46 6,732 VE6SZS 29 4 18 16 51 6,496 VE3KIS 30 6 8 14 44 6,104 K6EY 27 5 0 16 32 5,920 CT1ANO 25 4 53 12 82 5,232* W4TDB 18 6 13 16 37 5,216 VE4BAW 41 3 10 10 54 4,900 VE7TLH 30 5 11 11 46 4,642 VE4LR 32 2 15 11 49 4,290 KQ6ES 37 2 0 10 39 4,100 VE3CNA 30 3 6 11 39 4,092 VO1HP 24 3 50 10 77 4,000 VA3TTU 25 4 14 11 43 3,938 KE5DHY 25 3 7 12 35 3,888* K7PRW 31 3 5 10 39 3,800 K1VU 28 3 0 11 31 3,740 VE1RAR 27 3 16 10 46 3,620 VA4TV 40 1 7 8 48 3,472 WF8P 28 3 0 10 31 3,400 K7IA 21 2 14 11 37 3,058 NJ1F 24 2 12 10 38 3,040 VE3SYK 19 4 0 11 23 2,970 F5UKL 19 1 43 10 63 2,960* WA4OSD 15 3 0 12 18 2,520 VE3QLQ 15 4 6 10 25 2,420 VE9LMN 30 1 7 7 38 2,338 NF8M 11 4 0 11 26 2,090 K4DXU 11 2 1 11 14 1,672 VE6FS 14 2 0 9 16 1,620 VA3RPW 14 3 2 7 19 1,428 K0FG 8 3 0 9 11 1,260 K0UK 12 0 0 9 12 1,080 W6ZZZ 13 0 0 8 13 1,040 DL3ZAI 8 1 18 6 27 816* VE3XL 0 0 373 1 373 746 EA1CS 6 1 22 4 29 496* YL3DX 3 2 27 4 32 496* YO3APJ 8 0 7 5 15 470* EW1KT 5 1 8 4 14 344* KB8VZY 4 1 4 5 9 340 VE7SJW 6 1 1 4 8 328 EA5EOH 4 0 30 3 34 300 OK2BEN 5 1 0 3 6 210* VA3ORP 3 0 7 3 10 132 HA2MN 2 0 18 1 20 56* UU2JG 0 1 11 1 12 42*

SINGLE OPERATOR ALL BANDS HIGH POWER CALL CDN RAC DX MULT QSO's SCORE VA3DX 483 25 310 85 818 505,750** VE3XN 466 25 281 82 772 469,204 W5WMU 455 19 404 68 878 390,184* WX5S 418 18 282 75 718 382,800* K7RL 425 15 236 66 676 331,452* VE3SY 429 19 216 53 664 270,406 VO1TA 395 16 194 53 605 246,874* W9RE 290 19 136 69 445 245,088* VE4YU 292 25 162 63 479 235,872* K6NA 322 21 196 67 539 233,856 VE7ZBK 317 14 392 50 723 211,700* VO1MP 307 11 250 52 568 197,080 W1AJT/VE3 240 14 295 59 549 192,930 VE6SF 240 18 175 59 433 183,490* KO7X 279 16 189 51 484 177,888 K4ZGB 250 14 120 47 384 141,940* VE7IO 250 11 116 42 377 123,984 K4BAI 169 9 259 41 437 97,908 VE6WQ 191 10 246 36 447 93,672 W4RK 122 13 91 41 226 68,142 W9SN 128 9 169 37 306 66,526 VA3SWG* 133 10 77 35 220 58,940 VE3WIB 152 4 235 26 391 53,820 K6RB 118 7 125 30 250 47,100 VO1UL 116 8 11 33 135 44,286 VE3RZ 108 4 132 31 244 44,144 VE5RAC 139 7 43 27 189 43,632* K6III 76 10 47 38 133 40,052 KD3GC* 116 5 37 29 158 38,686 K5XR 120 6 65 26 191 37,700 G3ORY 89 7 230 25 326 37,250* KU5S 93 10 14 28 117 32,424 N4GG 94 5 86 26 185 31,512 W4BQF 96 7 129 23 232 31,234 WA2VYA 88 8 130 24 226 31,200* VA3XH 105 8 8 25 121 30,650 K8JQ 99 3 83 24 185 29,184* VE3EJ 61 3 34 35 98 25,830 KA9F 63 7 8 30 78 23,580* N3KR* 65 8 52 22 125 20,108* N8OL 73 5 16 22 94 18,964 VA2BOY* 83 6 3 17 92 16,252* VE1ACU 58 4 45 19 107 14,250* VE1MC* 88 4 18 10 110 9,960* VA2RAC 60 4 67 11 131 8,954 MM5AHO 36 3 57 11 96 5,874* K5ZG 20 4 16 17 40 5,304 WA6BOB 23 3 17 16 43 5,184 W2OO 30 6 0 12 36 5,040 K9JIG 26 3 0 12 29 3,840 WA0IAF 22 2 1 14 25 3,668* PY3PA 22 2 8 9 32 2,484* KC2MDQ* 21 1 0 9 22 2,070 KA6GDT 12 1 2 6 15 864 VA3KSF 7 2 7 5 16 620 NB7V 8 1 0 6 9 600 EA2AHZ* 0 378* AJ3J* 1 0 25 1 26 60 Call* Assumed High Power

SINGLE OPERATOR ALL BANDS - QRP CALL CDN RAC DX MULT QSO's SCORE K3TW 158 17 86 52 261 108,784** VA3DF 158 17 105 47 280 100,110* K4LTA 161 12 144 36 317 68,416* VE7NI 106 9 52 32 167 43,008* VA3RKM 62 11 38 27 111 24,732 K4ORD 57 9 54 26 120 22,308 KD2MX 30 2 10 18 42 6,480* K2EKM 25 2 0 13 27 3,770 KI4FW 19 3 0 10 22 2,500 VE9QRP 18 2 8 10 28 2,360* VO1JLE 25 3 13 7 41 2,352* RW3AI 2 1 194 2 197 856* VE3WMB 6 1 4 5 11 440 3Z6V 7 0 0 3 7 210* K6MI 3 1 0 2 4 100*

SINGLE OPERATOR SINGLE BAND ANY POWER CALL CDN RAC DX MULT QSO's SCORE Band-Pwr VA3YY 32 1 81 7 114 3,514* 160-HP* WB2ABD 21 1 0 7 22 1,610* 160-LP VA7MM 17 1 15 3 33 660* 160-HP* NT6K 7 0 7 5 14 420* 160-LP KL7FH 10 1 8 3 19 408* 160-HP VE3CX 196 4 108 10 308 22,560* 80-HP W8IQ 98 6 69 17 173 21,046* 80-HP* VA7XX 65 3 46 13 114 10,426* 80-HP VE2FK 25 3 45 7 73 2,800* 80-LP VA3KUG 25 1 8 6 34 1,716 80-LP SM6WET 3 0 19 2 22 136* 80-LP UT3UA 3 0 1 2 4 64* 80-HP VP9HW 2 0 4 2 6 56* 80-HP* VE3FH 65 8 14 18 87 15,084* 40-LP VE7FEI 65 3 0 8 68 5,680* 40-HP* K9WX 31 1 38 9 70 3,654* 40-LP VE5BF 20 2 0 6 22 1,440* 40-HP* VA7VVV 11 2 0 4 13 600 40-HP* K9FH 3 1 0 4 4 200* 40-LP EW7LO 4 0 21 2 25 164* 40-HP G0MTN 1 0 33 1 34 76* 40-HP* SP9KJU 1 0 0 1 1 10* 40-LP VE7XT 256 8 330 21 594 70,980** 20-HP VE2BQB 176 9 323 21 529 54,306* 20-HP W6AFA 154 6 145 12 305 23,400* 20-HP* IZ2FDU 49 7 64 17 120 12,886* 20-LP AL1G 95 3 75 9 173 10,440* 20-HP* N4MM 47 4 11 18 62 10,296* 20-HP* VY1YT 70 3 45 10 118 8,500* 20-HP* GM3CFS 22 5 71 8 98 3,696* 20-LP XE1MM 35 1 1 8 37 2,976* 20-HP VE7DXU 25 2 0 9 27 2,610 20-HP* VA7DXX 21 1 15 10 37 2,600 20-LP VE7GEI 17 2 10 7 29 1,610 20-LP KI4EGT 18 2 6 6 26 1,392 20-LP SP8BAB 10 2 25 5 42 950* 20-LP LY2CU 7 2 7 6 16 744* 20-HP AD7BN 8 2 0 5 10 600* 20-LP OK2HZ 8 0 10 6 18 600* 20-LP AC0DH 8 2 0 5 10 600* 20-LP SP4AVG 4 2 0 4 6 320 20-HP* EA5TN 4 0 2 3 6 132* 20-LP TF3AM 3 1 4 2 8 116* 20-HP SP4LVK 3 0 1 3 4 96 20-HP* LA6CF 2 0 3 2 5 52* 20-HP* LR1A 1 0 2 1 3 14* 20-LP SP3AZO 1 0 0 1 1 10 20-LP AB0OX 8 1 2 2 11 208* 15-LP VE5AAD 2 1 24 2 27 176* 15-LP G0RDO 0 0 4 0 4 8* 15-LP JL7FBV 0 0 1 1 1 2* 15-LP VE7JRX 3 0 0 1 3 30* 2-LP HP* Assumed High Power

MULTI-OPERATOR MULTI-TRANSMITTER ANY POWER CALL CDN RAC DX MULT QSO's SCORE VE6RAC 973 12 1553 96 2538 1,255,296** VE6AO 628 21 677 81 1326 652,374 VE6FI 645 19 560 53 1224 421,350 VE5RI 409 19 562 72 990 402,768* VE3YAA 406 15 502 64 923 343,296* VA3NR 222 15 177 70 414 201,180 VE3DC 390 10 321 35 721 165,970 VA3RAC 213 6 199 49 418 129,752 VE7NA 158 13 213 42 384 95,172* VE7RAC 223 5 107 19 335 48,336 VE7FO 73 8 27 33 108 31,152

MULTI-OPERATOR SINGLE TRANSMITTER HIGH POWER CALL CDN RAC DX MULT QSO's SCORE VE1LD 477 8 221 59 706 316,948** W8BD 268 14 116 53 398 169,176* VE6RFM 183 6 272 44 461 109,736* VE7JKZ 186 7 168 46 361 107,456* VE1OP 145 9 268 43 422 93,138 N2BJ 104 11 35 26 150 34,580* VO1RAC 64 2 18 18 84 12,888* EA4RCT 51 4 4 15 59 8,970*

MULTI-OPERATOR SINGLE TRANSMITTER LOW POWER CALL CDN RAC DX MULT QSO's SCORE VE3MIS 225 13 250 59 488 177,590** VE2CQ 248 16 225 52 489 169,000* VE3CTP 192 21 85 47 298 117,970 VE7UT 110 11 15 31 136 41,850* W0QQS 38 6 0 19 44 9,500* VE7ONY 58 4 34 12 96 8,736 VE7RAW 30 4 14 11 48 4,488 W9EBV 22 2 3 10 27 2,660* K2VK 12 1 1 3 14 426*

CANADA WINTER CONTEST 2005 RECORDS

Call Category QSOs Mult Score Year

VE6JY

(op VE5MX) SO-AB-HP 1676 129 1,344,180 2000

VX5SF SO-AB-LP 1510 109 1,002,800 2001

VE3JC SO-AB-QRP 399 81 271,674 2001

VE3YOC SO-SB-144MHz 82 2 1,464 1995

VY2SS SO-SB-50 MHz 382 10 1 0,720 2001

ZF2NT SO-SB-28 MHZ 1127 23 100,832 1998

VE3KZ SO-SB-21 MHz 873 20 75,040 1997

VE7AV SO-SB-14 MHz 777 24 107,472 2000

VA3MO SO-SB-7 MHz 525 22 72,644 2001

VE3BY SO-SB-3.5 MHz 537 22 104,016 1997

VE3MGY SO-SB-1.8 MHz 191 17 20,570 2004

VX6JY MS* 2092 132 1,476,024 2001

VA6AO MO-ST-HP 1560 110 885,060 2003

VE2CQ MO-ST-LP 575 68 254,456 2003

VE6JY MM 4311 122 2,725,236 1997

* Category superceded in Winter 2003

AC0DH: very bad propagation. EA4RCT: Really bad propagation this year. Nothing heard on 10, 15 and 80. Thanks to everybody who called us, specially VY1JA. See you next year. EA8ASJ: Very good contest, Tks and to nex aid. 73. G0MTN: Only part time this year – sorry. G3ORY: As enjoyable as ever. Thanks for a great, relaxed contest guys. IZ2FDU: Nice contest-glad to qso Ves-Season's compliments - 73 Jim. HA2MN: Poor condx, sri. Rig TS-530SP 100W into a whip and a LW. JL7FBV: Too bad no listening Canada station. K0HW: Thanks for the contest, I always enjoy working this contest and wish I could spend the entire 24 hours on it. K3TW: Many thanks to the fine Canadian operators who make this such an enjoyable contest. K4UK: I really appreciated Bill, VE6AO standing by to allow me to work NL7QT in Wrangle, AK on the frequency he was running. It was fun. The courtesy shown by VE6AO is so typical of the Canadian Contests and that's why I enjoy participating in them. K4ZGB: First time to be in a VE contest in several years. Not so sure that I like the contacts between U.S. to U.S., U.S. to DX, etc. as contest points. Why not just Canadian contacts for points? Enjoyed it and hope I can make it again next year. K6MI: 7 QSL FOR VE!!!!. K6NA: Thanks for running the event, I like the two-mode format. K9JIG: Need more VE's above 7150 or working split on 40M.. KA6GDT: I wish I could have spent more time competing I enjoyed it. KA8Q: Very enjoyable contest again. Conditions were rather poor except on 80 and one brief hour when western Canada came booming in on 20. Already looking forward to next year. KB8VZY: Missed contest in 04, had a great time, hoep to hear you next year. KE5DHY: My first time in this contest. Lots of fun. MM5AHO: Band was noisy 80m to start and little activity from VE. Didn't hear any contestants outside Nth America. N4MM: ARRL Vice President. NG7Z: Best score ever in this contest. It's a real pleasure to contest from my new QTH. The big 80M delta loop performed well n 40M but the QRN on 80M limited my score to some degree. All in all, I'm very pleased with my score. OK2HZ: THE PROPAGATION CONDITIONS WERE POORER THAN I SUPPOSED ... TF3AM: Always fun to work Canada. This time, condition was no good and only 4 contacts with VE and only 8 total. I look forward to better conditions. Thanks for organize this fine contest. VA3DX: Only 10 mtr was a local who gave me cw/ssb there.. Got on 40 ssb to run VE's, and had a pile of JA's calling on the long path plus 5X1GS and SV9DXJ. VA3EC: Good fun. Thanks for the Q's. VA3EWP: Great contest, sure is nice to see so many VE-VA’s. VA3MAH: Do to work timetable, was unable to put in a good effort, first time running Single-Op. VA3QR: Great band conditions this year! VA3NQ: 1st RAC contest from this qth- enjoyed myself. VA3ORP: In recognition of "Year of the Veteran" all contacts made with WW2 army WS#19, RCAF AT1/AR2. VA3RGR: First time contest very enjoyable need better antenna's for next year. Used "SD" logger highly recommended. Thanks to all. VA3RKM: Great contest for QRP. Not much QRM and good propagation. FT817, 5 watts, 80/40 15' high dipoles and 160m 1/4 wave wire, 20/15m ground-mounted vertical antenna. Thanks to those copying the weak QRP signals, especially VE6RAC that worked me on 4 bands, 80 thru 15m. VA3TTU: Thank you and 73! VA3WSN: Seems that many didn't read the contest information and were not aware of the date. But those of us who did still had a great time. Thanks, RAC! VA3YY: Topband seemed to be in good shape-usual conflict with Stew Perry contest-wish RAC could pick a different weekend. VA7VVV: Dave Caddell and one cat! VA7XX: Lots of fun in another RAC Winter. I like the date move as I am normally away from the station between Xmas and New Year's. VE1AWP: PLEASE ADD CW ONLY CLASS IN NEXT YEARS CONTEST (We did ! … de VE5SF). VE1ACU: VY0, W1, VY2, VE8NT, where were you? VE1RAC: In spite of some time constraints and bad condx, this was a good time. Worked lost of Europeans on 40m in broad daylight Saturday afternoon. VE1RAR: My first RAC contest, antenna was down from previous storm. VE3CNA: Had fun-must get a laptop and logging software 73 Gord. VE3CRU: Great contest. Had fun, worked several on 40 using 160 dipole, next electronic logging. VE3CTP: Although a slow start was pleased with the results a true Canadian Holiday contest. Great Fun! VE3DC: We had fun even though it was tough for some of the guys get in the driveway with all the snow. Our new guy had fun but wasn't impressed with the snow. It was extremely cold, but band conditions were better than expected. Dan and I had the most fun with the runs on 40 and 80. Thanks for all that worked us. See you in July. VE3FZ: Only had a few hours this year but thought that I would put in log anyways. VE3GNU: Many thanks & appreciation to the log readers/checkers/collators! VE3OXX: Where were the "hams" up north? VE3SMA: Trying out new rig. Elecraft K2 at about 20 watts to various apartment balcony antennas, plus FT-290R and 2 el quad on 2m. VE3SY: Friday night got off to a slow start after my newly acquired Kenwood TL-922decided to play games with its antenna relay leaving me with poor receive. At: first I thought the 80m poor rx was due to the vertical - my dipole came down a week ago - but it was the TR relay. So I pulled the amp and spent the next couple of hours removing burnishing and returning the relay. Sure is a well built amp however accessing the TR relay was not well thought out by the Kenwood Engineers. Great conditions for the test with timely E-W openings on 15. And WOW! What can we say about the fantastic turnout of VO1 stations. I counted 14 VO1 stations on 80 metres alone. Also nice to hear activity from VY1 and VE8 land and even better when they called me. Not sure how many RAC bonus stations where on but there was a great turnout of bonus stations as well with the VE6RAC group rallying a great Multi-Multi operation. For the first time I took a crack at dusting off the old Brass straight key and made a few CW contacts on each band. Good to hear other Contest Club Ontario stations. VE3SYK: No propagation on 2/6/10 during contest. VE3TMT: Great contest! Will be back next year. VE3TPZ: Bands were not very good on Friday Nite, Were better on Saturday. VE3VMP: My second year contesting es my second time in this contest. Enjoyed both CW es SSB, Tnx RAC. VE3WMB: Not much operating time, but as always lots of fun. VE4BAW: Came across it by accident, heard VE6RAC, I look forward to next contest. VE4LR: Would be better starting Saturday, didn't look like many VE4s were out. VE4MG: This is the most qs I've ever made in a contest-bravo to all the VE3s who took part-73. VE4YU: Thanks all participants for another fun CANADIAN contest. CU in July! VE5RI: More unusual condx in this contest. 20 shut down within minutes of sundown and did not revive until not long before sunrise. From then on 10, 160, 80 and 40 were quiet and productive. Our only equipment on, lots of action on 20. 15 was good during daylight. Nothing here troubles were operator generated in our old 486 computers running TRLog - some day we'll learn! We had two new ops, Tony and Don, visit with us and do a bit of operating. We hope we can add these new contesters to our ranks. Season's Greetings to all our radio contesting friends and thanks to Sam and RAC for another one of our fun RAC contests. VE6FS: Sure hope the contest is between Christmas & New Year for 2006?! VE6RFM: Lots of fun watching Will, VA6WGO, (TI2WGO), run a CW pile-up and search and pounce ssb mults at the same time. VE6SF: Everyone was very cooperative & courteous, but no more paper logging for me. VE7ALN: Very enjoyable contest. VE7FO: This was a newbie training session. Went M/M because the object was to have the newbies make Qs. Didn't want the ten minute rule to get in the way of making them. VE7IO: Despite poor band conditions there were plenty of stations to work. Thanks to all the hams who gave me the opportunity to enter their call into my log. VE7JKZ: 160M was fun. Propagation poor on Friday night. VE7NA: Great Fun Good to Re-New Friendship and Season Greetings. VE7NI: Great fun as usual and good band conditions! Thanks to all who gave the extra time to copy my QRP signal. VE7WU: Good path to Ontario very good on 20 meters. 15 could of used more action. Amazing how the points add up near the end. Thanks to those who make it happen. 73. VE7XF: 10m was a bust. Took an hour off to chase the KP5 on 20cw, with no luck. VE9LMN: Great contest! First time doing a contest. W4RK: Canadian operators were terrific! W2LHL: As usual, forgot there is no separate CW category, oh well (Separate CW category Starts next year – ed.). WA2VYA: Really enjoy this contest. W4TDB: Outstanding contest. I will make a full time effort next year. W6ZZZ: Just some S&P. W8BD: As always, The most enjoyable test of the year. We could use a designated six meter freq. W9EBV: KB9KEG and KB9OFM contested from the Fond du Lac Lighthouse this year and we sure had fun!!! See you all next year. Signed Randy and Dennis. 73. W9RE: Great activity-wished I could have spent more time. WB8JUI: How about a CW only category next year? (You Bet !). XM5BCS: I enjoyed - band wasn't good first 12 hrs but sure improved.

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