RAC Stations Schedule
(as of September 6, 2017)
https://www.rac.ca/rac150/operations/
Volunteers are needed to activate the 14 RAC stations for the RAC Canada 150 Award. The following schedule is as of September 6, 2017 and new volunteers will be added as the names are submitted. For more information visit https://www.rac.ca/rac150/
VA2RAC – André Perron, VE2ZT, will operate every weekend from the beginning of September until the end of December on various band from 80m to 6m.
VA3RAC – Robert Vanderminnen, VA3RMV, will operate from September 8 to September 10 mostly in the evenings. Kevin Clements, VE3RCN/CF3NAVY, will operate from September 11 to September 15 as follows: “80m through 70cm including WARC bands limited to a max of 100w. Modes will be CW (by fist), SSB, RTTY, JT65a, FT8 and SSTV. SO-50 satellite QSOs will be conducted during daylight hours, weather (and other duties) permitting from grid FN02. May also try AO-85”.
Tom Haavisto, VE3CX, will be using the VA3RAC call sign for the CQWW RTTY Contest on September 23 and September 24. He will be doing do a single op, all band, high power effort. Rob Noakes, VE3PCP, will operate from October 20 to October 22 for the Scouts’ Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA).
VE1RAC – Bob Schofield, VE1RSM, will operate until October 6. Kevin Morgan, VE9MY, Russ Hemphill, VE9FI, Linda Friars, VE9GLF and Patricia, VE9DZ, will use VE1RAC from October 6 to October 14 from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Len Morgan, VE9MY, will activate VE1RAC from October 11-15.
VE4RAC – Cary Rubenfeld, VE4EA, assisted by other Winnipeg Amateurs, will be operating as VE4RAC from time to time between now and the end of the year.
VE6RAC – David Gervais, VE6KD, will operate the VE6RAC station from September 4 to September 17.
VE7RAC – Fred Orsetti, VE7IO, has organized the following volunteers to operate the VE7RAC call sign for the rest of the year: Doug Pichette, VA7DP, Gabor Horvath, VE7JH, Al McNeil, VA7QQ, John Mackay, VE7RB, Al Ross, VE7WJ, Jim Smith, VE7FO, Rebecca Kimoto, VA7BEC, Koji Kimoto, VA7KO, Brian Summers, VE7JKZ, John White, VA7JW, John Schouten, VE7TI and Fred Orsetti, VE7IO. A schedule is available in PDF format (78 kb) and is also provided below.
VE9RAC – Jean-Paul Leblanc, VE9BK and Marcel Leblanc, VE9ML will be activating VE9RAC for the rest of the year.
VO1RAC – Boyd Snow, VO1DI, RAC NL Section Manager, has organized several RAC members across Newfoundland to activate VO1RAC for the remainder of the year. The operators are: Joe Earles, VO1BQ, Boyd Snow, VO1DI, Doug Mercer, VO1DM, George Hopkins, VO1EGH, Frank Davis, VO1HP, Chris Hillier, VO1IDX, Ken Tucker, VO1KVT, Barry Harris, VO1NC, Loren Butler, VO1OE, Ross Trickett, VO1ROS, Chris McGonigle, VO1TX, Carl Milley, VO1UL and Max Powell, VO1VR.
VO2RAC – Nazaire Simon, VO2NS, from Labrador City and Chris Allingham, VE3FU/VO2AC, who will be operating a remote station in Goose Bay from Ontario, will be operating as VO2RAC for the rest of the year.
VY1RAC – The VY1AAA Yukon CanAm Contest Club, operating at the station of VY1JA, will be activating VY1RAC for the rest of the year on CW and Digital modes, as time permits. Operations started on August 15 on 20m and many QSOs were made. They “look forward to providing the Yukon for those chasing the RAC Canada 150 award”.
The best way to keep tabs on the activations will probably be by watching the DX Cluster (e.g., dxsummit.fi).
We are hoping to get all of RAC stations on the air for the RAC Canada Winter Contest on December 30.
For more information on the RAC Canada 150 Award and how to volunteer to activate a RAC station please visit https://www.rac.ca/rac150/ and https://www.rac.ca/volunteers-needed-to-activate-for-rac-canada-150-award/
VE7RAC schedule: updated September 2, 2017
Completed Operations:
Thank you for volunteering and for participating in the RAC Canada 150 Award:
VE1RAC – Scott Nichols, VE1OP, of North Sydney, Cape Breton, operated from August 7 to 31.
VA2RAC – Jean Charron, VE2JCW, operated on July 21-26. Gilles Renucci, VE2TZT, operated until the end of August.
VA3RAC – John Leonardelli, VE3IPS, operated on July 29-30; Dennis Rule, VE3BF, operated on August 6-11; Rob Noakes, VE3PCP, Carson Morton, VA3OSO and Fred Gibson, VE3KHQ, operated on Saturday, August 12 for International Youth Day; and Steve Edwards, VA3TPS, operated from August 15 to 18 and August 21 to 25.
VE4RAC – Cary Rubenfeld, VE4EA, operated VE4RAC in the NAQP CW contest on August 5-6 and after the contest on August 13; Jessy Blanchette, VE4JBB, operated on August 15; John Romanec, VE4VJR, operated on August 16-18; and Don Menzies, VE4DFM, operated on August 18. Cary, VE4EA, has been Elmering (an Amateur term for mentoring) several Amateurs in the Winnipeg area including Jessy, John and Don, and will be lining up other operations from Winnipeg amateurs in the future.
VE5RAC – Saskatchewan Section Manager, Summer Hartzfeld, VE5SDH, activated the VE5RAC call sign on Saturday, August 5 for the North American QSO Party contest from Saturday at noon to midnight. It was a CW operation.
VE8RAC – Gerry St Amand, VE8GER, operated from his cabin near Inuvik in the Northwest Territories from August 17 until August 24 and from September 1 to September 4.
VE9RAC – FYI, as part of their ongoing operations Marcel and Jean-Paul also operated as a Multi-2 in the NAQP CW contest on August 5-6.
VY0RAC – Pierre Fogal, VE3KBT, operated from Eureka, Nunavut on July 12-23.
VY2RAC – RAC Director Phil McBride, VA3QR, operated from Cavendish, Prince Edward Island from August 13 to August 19 on Sunday, August 13 on 40m, 60m and 80m SSB.
For more information on the RAC Canada 150 Award and how to volunteer to activate a RAC station please visit https://www.rac.ca/rac150/ and https://www.rac.ca/volunteers-needed-to-activate-for-rac-canada-150-award/