RAC Contest Managers:
Bart Ritchie, VE5CPU and Sam Ferris, VE5SF

Web Update November 30, 2024 – We had a misplaced log for Igor Mordick, VA3FF, in the SOABCW category and as a result he will now move into third place in the category with a score of 111,112.  This bumps Mark Mattila, VA7MM, out of third place in the category moving him to fourth place. Our apologies to all those who were impacted by this error. 

The RAC Canada Day Contest is Radio Amateurs of Canada’s way of celebrating the anniversary of the Canadian Confederation which took place on July 1, 1867. This year, Canada Day (July 1) fell on a Monday so we started the contest on a Sunday evening in Canada (Monday UTC time). Since it was not a holiday or a weekend for those outside of Canada, we did not expect another record-breaking year, but we were pleased to see a continuation in the overall trend of improved participation.

Despite it being a Monday, one of the factors contributing to high levels of activities was the improved propagation resulting from Solar Cycle 25 as the window for those outside of North America to get some propagation into Canada was even better than last year.

We continue to see Single Op All Band CW (22% of logs) and Single Op Assisted Low Power (18% of logs) as the two most favoured entry categories. The entry mix was very similar to last year across all the categories. The only new record this year was set by Igor Slakva, VE3ZF, in the relatively new Single Op Assisted Low Power (SOALP) category.