Welcome to the official web site of CQ World Wide VHF Contest. The contest promotes VHF activity on the 6 and 2 meter bands with participation from around the world.
2025 CQ World Wide VHF Contest
SSB/CW: July 05 - 06
Digital: July 19 - 20
Begins: 1200 UTC Saturday
Ends: 1200 UTC Sunday
Search the online database for any station or operator call sign:
View the online database for all entries since 2000.
You can view the list of received logs here. If you have submitted a log that the robot recognizes you will receive a receipt from it. If you can't see your callsign in the list of received logs, try submitting to the robot again (after checking for errors).
If you are not ROVER nor HILLTOPPER please use the LOCATION (ARRL-SECTION) line in the Cabrillo file to put the state you operated from (since using QRA locators to determine this can be ambiguous in some cases).
SSB/CW mode contest is always the first weekend of July.
Digital mode contest is always the third weekend of July.
2026: CW/SSB: July 04-05 | Digital: July 18-19
2027: CW/SSB: July 03-04 | Digital: July 17-18
2028: CW/SSB: July 01-02 | Digital: July 15-16
N2NC New Director of CQ WW VHF Contest
(Cleveland, OH) – June 11, 2024 – The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF) is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, John Golomb, N2NC, will be assuming the Director role for the CQ WW VHF Contest (cqww-vhf.com).