2025-09-29
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The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began a national strike on Thursday, September 25. As a result Canada Post’s operations has shut down during the national strike, affecting millions of Canadians and businesses across the country. This has also impacted any shipments or mail to or from Radio Amateurs of Canada including packages, magazines and other materials to and from Radio Amateurs of Canada.
The magazine had been delayed by the decision to include information about RAC initiatives so that hey would be published in the online issue of the magazine in time for the RAC Planning Meeting and Annual General Meeting.
In addition the need to switch to a new printer also resulted in some scheduling issues which then coincided with the National Postal Strike. We apologize for any inconvenience and are working to improve the scheduling of TCA so that it will be delivered earlier.
The vast majority of our membership registration is completed online or by phone but payments are also sent by mail. If you have mailed in a cheque recently – to join RAC or to renew your membership – and it has not been processed then most likely it has not yet been delivered to RAC Headquarters. Please contact the RAC Office as shown below to verify that the cheque was not received and make alternative arrangements.
Many RAC Affiliated Clubs use cheques to process their insurance payments and these will be impacted by the work stoppage. We have already received inquiries from clubs about alternate methods to make payments and from clubs who have already sent their applications by mail.
Thank you for your patience during these challenging times. Please feel free to email me or call me if you have any questions or need any assistance.
Adam MacDonell
RAC Office Manager
T: 613-244-4367 | 1-877-273-8304
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Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) is the national association for Amateur Radio in Canada. It is a not-for-profit membership association with its headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representing the interests of Amateur Radio across Canada.
Radio Amateurs of Canada represents all Canadian Amateurs at all levels of government. Speaking on behalf of Canadian Radio Amateurs, RAC provides liaison with government agencies and carries the Amateur voice about regulatory and spectrum issues to the discussion table with government and industry leaders, nationally and internationally. RAC is the Canadian voting member society of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU).
For more information “About RAC” please see the “We Are All About Amateur Radio” brochure.
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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