Well this seems like a day for contesting…
Found out the the Ontario QSO Party (Contest Club Ontario) results posted on their webpage today… I draw your attention to the following:
If you refer back to my blog posting of April 23rd 2012
You would get a gentle reminder that VA3PCJ, VA2EPR and myself (VA3QV) headed up to Foymount Ontario to operate QRP for the Ontario QSO Party from Foymount Ontario…
Not only did it seem that we were the only 3 QRP Operators in Renfrew but it also seems that we were the only 3 Operators in Renfrew County because according to the final results (as follows):
Renfrew County
VA3PCJ— REN SOQRP — 741 points
VA3QV — REN SOQRP — 432 points
VA2EPR/VE3— REN SOQRP— 110 points
So there you have it… What I would call a very successful mini DXPedition. Three guys drive up the side of a mountain in a freezing rain/snow/rain storm and operate for a couple of hours and manage to sweep the top three places in our catagory. (To be honest we were most likely the only three who competed in our catagory but the first way sounds better to me…)
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Now if we were to take it one small step further and you look through the results again you will notice that VA3RCS (the call I operated on the Sunday from Ottawa) managed to finish 13th out of 33 in Single Operator Low Power Phone catagory and as silly as it seems (with a single day score of 1680 pts) was also enough to be 1st in the City of Ottawa in the Single Operator Low Power Phone catagory. This has to prove that not enough people are submitting their logs…
So the moral of the story for all of you is that if you don’t submit your logs you can’t win and if you do submit your score you can be happily suprised at times…
Once again thanks to the Contest Club Ontario for running the contest and to all those who were there to give me the few contacts that I did get…
73bob
Tags: amateur radio, amateur radio contesting, Amateur Radio Contests, Contest Club Ontario, Ontario QSO Party, OQP, VA2EPR, VA3PCJ
