All multipliers and RAC special stations can be contacted once for each mode on each band. RAC count 20 points while all canadian count 10 points.
I started out at 0000 UTC and did a S & P operation between 20,40 and 75 m till a little before 0300 UTC. It seemed a tough go with the bands being noisy ,but I still ended with more multipliers than expected with 20! QSO count was low at about 40. Not great but I hoped to have Saturday so I called it a night. Next morning I was on at 1334 UTC and the first contact was PEI- Prince Edward Island on 20m ! Nice start and the rest of the day was spent with some nice multiplier additions on all bands except 160m-- and of course no activity for Me above 10m!
I don't know if the proximity to Canada makes a difference but it seemed like I was able to Waltz into many pile-ups and bust them first call!! Who's the N0??? Well that be ME-LOL . Makes it lots of fun being the percieved big gun although 100w into a ground mounted vertical is not typically considered that!. I also seemed to have a good luck charm following Me because even though I wasn't running assisted I stumbled on good multipliers across the bands consistently. I snagged Northern territories on 5 bands and actually heard a NT tuning up and became a first contact! Neat!! I ended up only missing NU ( Nunavut) and missed that one because I was impatient Friday night and didn't try to bust thru a pile -up figuring I'd have a chance later! Not to be!! never heard another one! Out of the 14 RAC Official stations I contacted 7 different ones on the bands 12 times!!
This contest would have been a good one to snag a run frequency but I had many QRT times so S & P was the way to go! Here's the results- Fun contest I really recommend, Lots of season Greetings and Happy Holidays sent with exchange!!
QSO-100 Points- 1008 Mults- 31 for a total of 31,248
73---Tim
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