What is the RAC contest on CW?

[kr2c]

I think I'm making people mad because I don't know the exchange. Help me.

[KC9ECI]

SM3CER Contest Service (http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/)



Official Rules (http://www.rac.ca/downloads/canwin2006.pdf)

Quote[/b] ]Exchange: Stations in Canada send
RS(T) and province or territory. VEØ’s and
stations outside Canada send RS(T) and a
serial number.

[kr2c]

Thanks. That's a real cool web site too. Added it to my links.

[WB2WIK]

RAC's not just on CW, it's also on phone, same weekend.

Same rules.

All you have to send that is "unique" is a serial number, starting with 1.

WB2WIK/6

[k0dxc]

It's a work all the Canadians you possibly can contest.

I don't know the exchange though

if you don't know the exchange or anything, don't get into the contest because yes, it does make people mad and I would be one of those people.

[k0dxc]

well anyways the contest is over now so it doesn't matter

[KC9ECI]

Quote[/b] (k0dxc @ Dec. 29 2007,17:36)]It's a work all the Canadians you possibly can contest.

I don't know the exchange though

if you don't know the exchange or anything, don't get into the contest because yes, it does make people mad and I would be one of those people.
I don't know about that. I listened to an op call CQ for quite a long time without a reply. I'm sure he would have been quite happy to explain the exchange to someone for the points.

Also, it was an everybody works everybody contest, not just work the Canadians contest.

[k0dxc]

yes but canadians are the only multipliers

[KC9ECI]

Multipliers are worthless without points. Every Q counts.

[n4qwb]

I heard several ops very politely explain the exchange to the people responding to their CQ. Every contester has always been happy to tell me the exhange.

However, I always listen for several exchanges before I jump into a contest. If I can't figure it out, I'll ask.

But now with the Internet, you can easily find the contest exchanges on many websites, such as the ARRL site and Contesting.com. That makes it a whole lot easier.

As for the RAC contest, you got more points for QSOs with Canadian stations. It was 10 points for VE stations (except for VE0). Other stations + VE0s were only worth 2 points. And if you got a RAC-member station, it was 20 points. The pileup on VY1RAC was huge.

[KU0DM]

This was a very mild contest, I don't think anyone would have gotten mad.
I didn't hear as much contesting as I did elmering.
I heard lots of stations in the contests taking a few to explain the rules as well as good practices for contesting.

A break from hard-core contesting is good for the soul. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[k0dxc]

Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Dec. 30 2007,08:23)]Multipliers are worthless without points. Every Q counts.
But multipliers count for the most points

[k0dxc]

Quote[/b] (KU0DM @ Dec. 30 2007,10:23)]This was a very mild contest, I don't think anyone would have gotten mad.
I didn't hear as much contesting as I did elmering.
I heard lots of stations in the contests taking a few to explain the rules as well as good practices for contesting.

A break from hard-core contesting is good for the soul. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Duncan,

I think you were talking about phone, CW is where the contesting is.

Especially at the bottom of the sunspot cycle.

I just can't wait for the naqp in January.

[KU0DM]

No no, I was talking both.

CW and phone are THE modes, I wouldn't say one out does the other. Conditions only affect communications to a point, from that point on sun spots don't mean anything, it's the operator.

[k0dxc]

CW RULES!!! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif