It did start off slow, but I think that as it was held mid-week this year, that certainly didn't help. 20m was the 'go-to' band for most of the weekend. Contacts were made on all bands, 80m through 2m, in fact the only band I didn't manage a contact on was 160m.
Propagation was the now 'normal' low numbers. As of 0030 UTC on Wednesday, the numbers were SFI = 69, Sn = 0, A Index = 4, and the K Index = 1. Those numbers didn't improve all contest.
I did managed to work all Provinces, and the North West Territories. I can't remember the last time I worked a VE8 station, so that was a real bonus.
As usual the RAC HQ Stations were the centre of activity, with huge pileups every time they popped up on the bands. Only the VE2, VE3, and VY2 RAC Stations never made it into the log, and it wasn't for the lack of searching for them.
Once again I operated QRP using the KX3 and the EFHW antenna. 60 contacts are in the log, and that means last years score was beaten, as was the number of mults, so I'm pretty pleased with that.
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