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Coming up on July 1st: RAC CANADA DAY CONTEST 2005. Be sure to Enter QRP-Canada's "RUN with RAC" contest. November 28, 2004: RAC WINTER CONTEST The RAC WINTER CONTEST will be held 0000 UTC to 2359 UTC on December 18th this year! As well, our little QRPp contest called *"RUN WITH RAC"* will run once again. Please check out the rules at here. -72/73 - Bruce ve5rc/ve5qrp June 11, 2004: December 2003 Run with RAC Results: N2JNZ, wins the SOAB-LP-[1w.max]CW category; VE3ELA and VE3RLX win the MSAB, HP [5w.max out], SSB & CW category! Details here. June 11, 2004: Minor Bug Noted with RAC Canada Day Software: A fix has been made to the time (UTC) setup for the logging program...Go to to the Canaday Contest Software page for updated software. During the past ten years, the results have been: One fourth place, three seconds and six firsts....not bad for a little club with only 12 members. (Thanks to Bob, VE3GND/GM4CPR)

Bruce Rattray (VE5RC+VE5QRP) reported the following: "I'm very pleased to announce that the members of QRP-Canada mailing list have raised the money required to sponsor the RAC Contests QRP plaques for a second 5 year time span. Here is a picture of the plaque":
	....the donors this time around are:
	Jim, AL7FS Pat, VE6AAN Bob, VE3GND Guy, VA2SVP John, VE3JC Ted, VE3FUL Ron, VE3SP Buck, N8CQA Frank, KL0SW Serge, VA3SB Dennis, VE3VG and the members of ARCI	John, VE8NT Dan, VA3MA Fred, VE3FAL Craig, VE4WI Rob, VE3FLB Bill, VE3XT Earl, VA6RF Doug, VE4TG Bruce, VE5RC Jim, VA3KV Paul, VA7NT Niels, VA6NJ
I would like to extend my personal thanks to everyone who made this a successful project!" Plaque sponsorship by QRP-Can began in 1998 and has run for the past 5 years. The first recipient Ted King,VE3FUL, received this beautiful plaque for 1998. See Ted's story here.