RAC Canada 150 Award - Radio Amateurs of Canada

Schedule of Operations | Log Check | Certificate Example | Guidelines

Note: A schedule of RAC station operations by RAC members is available on the RAC 150 Operations webpage and also posted on our Front Page.

When you are ready to download your RAC Canada 150 Award please click here: “Award Download”

The RAC Canada 150 Award is a celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday since Confederation in 1867.

The Award is issued for contacting the RAC stations listed in the following table between July 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017.

In addition to the RAC Canada Contest, the RAC Canada Winter Contest and the IARU HF Championship Contest, the RAC stations will be activated by volunteers at other times as described below.

We hope you enjoy taking part in this celebration. We have prepared a few Guidelines and Procedures which are provided below and at the bottom of this page to assist you to make contacts with RAC stations.

Special thanks to volunteers Gabor Horvath, VE7JH, Keith Witney, VE7KW, Attila Holop, HA2NA, John Scott, VE1JS, Richard Ferch, VE3KI, Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA, Paul Burggraaf, VE3PRB, Mike Hutchison and Alan Griffin for organizing this event. We hope you have fun!

Call Signs eligible for award	Province/Territory (modern names)	Year Joined Confederation
VE1RAC	Nova Scotia	1867
VE9RAC	New Brunswick	1867
VA2RAC	Quebec	1867
VA3RAC	Ontario	1867
VE8RAC	Northwest Territories	1870
VE4RAC	Manitoba	1870
VE7RAC	British Columbia	1871
VY2RAC	Prince Edward Island	1873
VY1RAC	Yukon	1898
VE6RAC	Alberta	1905
VE5RAC	Saskatchewan	1905
VO1RAC	Newfoundland and Labrador	1949
VO2RAC	Newfoundland and Labrador	1949
VY0RAC	Nunavut	1999

We have lined up a few stations so far and Gabor Horvath, VE7JH, is planning to use his experience with the VE100VIMY portable operations to line up some more. All of the RAC call signs are going to be activated as much as possible between now and the end of the year, depending on our ability to find volunteers to activate them. The intent is to get all of them activated for whatever times we are able to arrange.

We will publicize some of these activations in advance on this webpage and via RAC bulletins and social media so please be sure to subscribe to the RAC mailing list to receive notifications. For example, there will be a team operating VE1RAC from Cape Breton Island in October and there may be another VY0RAC operation in October from Eureka similar to the activation in July.

Other activations of a more routine or ongoing nature may not have special bulletins dedicated to them. For example, Jean-Paul Leblanc, VE9BK and Marcel Leblanc, VE9ML, will be activating VE9RAC for the rest of the year. The best way to keep tabs on the activations will probably be by watching the DX Cluster (e.g., dxsummit.fi).

We are hoping to get all of RAC stations on the air for the RAC Canada Winter Contest on December 30. We had all but one call sign on the air in the RAC Canada Day Contest.

The RAC Canada 150 Award

The Award consists of downloadable PDF certificates which are generated by a web application developed by Attila Holop, HA2NA. Thank you Attila!

The award levels are keyed to the dates upon which Provinces/Territories entered Confederation.

Award Level	Stations required	Award Name
1	4 stations	1867
2	6 stations	1870
3	7 stations	1871
4	8 stations	1873
5	9 stations	1898
6	11 stations	1905
7	12 stations	1949
8	13 stations	1999

The awards are automatically calculated from the RAC station logs (that are also uploaded to Logbook Of The World (LoTW)). To check how many RAC stations you have worked in the award period, enter your call sign and click the search button. If you have worked enough RAC stations to be eligible for an award, the “Award Download” button will appear. Click it to download a PDF version of your award.

Guidelines and Procedures for the RAC Canada 150 Award

1) Individuals volunteering to operate RAC call signs must be RAC members; clubs must be RAC Affiliated clubs.

2) Requests are to be made to the RAC Regional Director or his designate. A list of delegations for the RAC Canada 150 Award can be found on the RAC Canada 150 Operations webpage and on our Front Page.

3) RAC Directors or their designates will email about operations in advance. As described above, operations from rare or unusual locations will be publicized; ongoing operations from routine locations may not be specially publicized.

4) Individuals using the RAC call signs may use any bands or modes, keeping in mind that the goal is to allow as many Amateurs as possible to contact them.

5) Individuals using the RAC call signs must not operate in a manner that would bring discredit to RAC or damage RAC’s reputation.

6) Individuals using the RAC call signs must keep a log (call sign, date, time, band, mode – all the usual information).

7) Logs from the RAC call sign station operations are to be submitted to or . Logs should be in an acceptable format: ADIF or Cabrillo is fine; for other formats contact .

8) For a short-duration operation, the log is to be submitted as soon as possible after the end of the operation. For ongoing operations, logs should be submitted every few days.

9) RAC station logs will be uploaded to the RAC Canada 150 Award database and to Logbook of the World soon after they are received.

10) Award chasers do not need to submit logs. Award chasers may check on their progress by entering their call sign where indicated in the following table. Award chasers wanting a paper QSL for a contact with a station using a RAC call sign should QSL via the address listed at QRZ.com. It is recommended that award chasers make use of the DX cluster (e.g., dxsummit.fi) and similar means to keep track of current operations at any time.

RAC Canada 150 Award Celebrating Canada's 150th Birthday

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The RAC Canada 150 Award

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