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RAC Canada Day Contest 2025 Results
RAC Contest Managers Bart Ritchie, VE5CPU and Sam Ferris, VE5SF
Radio Amateurs of Canada sponsors two radio sport contests each year. The RAC Canada Day Contest celebrating Canada’s Birthday on Confederation Day and a celebration of the winter holiday season with the Canada Winter Contest.
The RAC Canada Day Contest is Radio Amateurs of Canada’s way of celebrating the anniversary of the Canadian Confederation which took place on July 1, 1867. This year, Canada Day (July 1) fell on a Tuesday so we started on Monday evening in Canada (Tuesday UTC time). Since it , was not a holiday or weekend for those outside of Canada we were not expecting another record-breaking year, but hoped to at least continue the overall trend of improved participation given we are well within Solar Cycle 25’s peak.
Alas, expecting ongoing participation due to Cycle 25 to provide us with decent propagation turned out to be wishful thinking. Conditions were pretty disturbed for much of the contest. This led to a much lower success rate for those that participated from outside of North America as well as a lowering of overall participation.
This year the Assisted categories (36% of logs) dominated entries while Single Mode CW and PH (28.4%) were the next most favoured entry categories. There were no new records this year in any of the available categories. Conditions and day of week made for poor opportunities in setting records.
The detailed results are provided on the right in PDF format.
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RAC Canada Day Contest 2025 Results
RAC Canada Winter Contest 2024 Results
In December each year the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) sponsors the Canada Winter Contest. Amateurs all over the world are invited to participate.
The contest was held on Saturday, December 28, 2024 and there were several updates to the rules including:
- Updated the suggested 40-metre phone frequency for Canadian SSB QSOs to avoid conflicts with FT8 or other digital frequency usage;
- Added information and a table to illustrate how scoring is calculated;
- Added clarity around how QRP entries are handled and adjudicated; and
- Added instructions on how paper logs can be converted to electronic logs using utilities established for our contests.
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Conditions were good on the high HF bands for the 2024 edition of the RAC Canada Winter Contest. Participation has increased by by a small increment of approximately three per cent with 1,218 entries in total. Although propagation was generally good, no new records were established.
The complete results can be found in the right column.
Sam Ferris, VE5SF – RAC Canada Winter Contest Manager
RAC Canada Winter Contest: December 28, 2024
Contest Period: 0000 UTC to 2359 UTC on Saturday, December 28, 2024.
In December each year the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) sponsors the Cana
da Winter Contest. Amateurs all over the world are invited to participate.
This year there are several updates to the rules including:
- Updated the suggested 40-metre phone frequency for Canadian SSB QSOs to avoid conflicts with FT8 or other digital frequency usage;
- Added information and a table to illustrate how scoring is calculated;
- Added clarity around how QRP entries are handled and adjudicated; and
- Added instructions on how paper logs can be converted to electronic logs using utilities established for our contests.
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If you need help preparing or submitting your log or have any other questions, please contact Sam Ferris, VE5SF at .
For the previous year’s contest results, visit the RAC website in the Contest section at: http://wp.rac.ca/contesting-results/
We look forward to hearing you on the air for the RAC Canada Winter Contest on December 28, 2024.
Sam Ferris, VE5SF – RAC Canada Winter Contest Manager
RAC Canada Winter Contest 2023 Results | RAC Canada Day Contest 2024 Rules (English and French)
RAC Canada Winter Contest 2023 Results
RAC Canada Day Contest 2024 Rules
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RAC Canada Day Contest 2023 Results
Thank you for participating! Don’t forget the RAC Canada Winter Contest is coming up soon! It will be held on December 30.
Updated December 20, 2023
RAC Contest Managers:
Bart Ritchie, VE5CPU and Sam Ferris, VE5SF
The RAC Contest Management Team is pleased to present an updated version of the RAC Canada Day Contest 2023 Results in the following pages.
We would like to acknowledge a couple of errors in the results.
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- In the listing for Multi-Operator Multi Transmitter Any Authorized Power Level the call sign for VE6TL was incorrectly listed as VE6RL as was the same error in the operators list.
- We were advised by Rob Noakes, VE3PCP, that there was an issue with the original scoring of his CJ3YLR entry. After reviewing we noted some formatting issues that were not identified which caused the incorrect scoring. We have corrected his result in the Multi Operator Single Transmitter High Power (MOSTHP) updating his score to 17, 366.
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It was certainly nice to see the solar cycle continue on its upswing, leading to better conditions on 10 and 15 metres for the RAC Canada Day Contest 2023. With improved solar conditions and a weekend Canada Day event there was a record 835 logs submitted – a 12% increase over last year’s record performance.
With a total of 108,225 QSOs logged, it was not only the best entry turnout but the highest number of logged QSOs we have ever recorded! Three new records were established this year with all of them in the new assisted categories. Please see inside for all of the details.
Thank you for participating in the contest! We would also like to thank all of our great sponsors for continuing to support the contest and Amateur Radio in Canada and internationally!
Don’t forget the RAC Canada Winter Contest is on December 30. See you on the bands!
RAC Canada Day Contest Manager:
Bart Ritchie, VE5CPU –
RAC Canada Winter Contest Manager:
Sam Ferris, VE5SF –
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