CQ World Wide VHF Contest
CQ World Wide VHF Contest
| Call | Category | Comments | K9ZF | Single Op All | Some nice conditions on 6! | KA4NDY | Single Op 6M | VERY SHORT TIME EFFORT. DIPOLE IN ATTIC. RESPONSE RATE 60% | KB8U | Single Op All | Great E-skip conditions. Even worked a little on 2m. Tropo was poor due to thunderstorms and hot weather. Wasn't on for most of Saturday | KC3BVL | Single Op All | FIRST LOG SUBMITTED FOR THIS CONTEST | KC4PX | Single Op 6M | FT4 and FT8 has made a significant improvement to contesting. Many thanks to Joe Taylor and Staff | KG6BXW/R | Rover | First time as a rover station Photos https://imgur.com/gallery/dl9NJXU | KI5FJ | Single Op All | 50 MHz FT-8 50 Watts to 1.5 Wave-Length Inverted-L Antenna up 20 Ft. 2 Meter FM Phone 15 Watts to X-50A Vertical Antenna | KK4BZ/R | Rover | equipment=TS570S and UV-5R, 6m stressed moxon, 2m 5/8 whip. It was incredibly hot during the day. Thanks for the fun! | KK7CO | Single Op All | KK7CO CLUB STATION | KM6PHB | Single Op All | AZ opened up from Norcal at the end. Good multipliers to pick up | KO0Z | Single Op All | Saturday was awesome! The 6m band opening had CW, SSB as well as FT8. It's great to hear the rovers. The runs were fun to operate. Sunday started off slow on 6 meters and was, for the most part, a digital day until late that afternoon. 2 meters was so, so but still exiciting at times | KX7L | Single Op All | Activity in the Pacific Northwest seemed a bit light. Maybe it was the nice weather.. I only heard/worked one rover (and that was on FT8). Between the two bands, I only had 7 QSOs on SSB, the rest were all FT8. A couple times when the openings to AZ and SoCal got reasonably strong (reports > 0dB), I would switch to 50.125. By and large though nothing was heard. I worked one station on SSB that way. Draw your own conclusions | LY5W | Single Op 6M | 3A2MW was new one DXCC on 6m | N0JK | Hilltopper | A short effort due to heat index of 115 deg F ! I roasted in the sun ! Used my old MFJ-9406, which I set up to do FT8. Also some SSB Qs. No 2 meter radio, so missed out on the 2 meter Sporadic-E Saturday afternoon. :-( | N0LD | Single Op 6M | Just operated 6m digital for this contest | N1ADX | Single Op 6M | Thank you for the contest! | N2KW | Single Op 6M | Thanks to Dave, K1TTT, for hosting this operation | N2MH/R | Rover | All contacts made with 18 inch cut down CB whip | N2SLN/R | Rover | activated PA grid FN11 and NY grids FN02 FN12 FN22 FN23 with 150 watts on each band | N2SLO | Single Op All | This was my highest CQ contest score ever. The band was open both Saturday and Sunday, the last time that happened was back at the previous solar cycle minimum I believe around 2008 or 2009. I was surprised at all the activity on SSB. The best part of contest, was on Saturday around 2250 I was chatting with K2DRH, Bob in EN41 about a special event coming up on Long Island next week on 50.185 and after we finished, Bob gave me the frequency. I started to call CQ, and worked a long pile up for almost two hours. (thanks Bob). The band was on fire, I was averaging about 1-3 QSO's a minute, which is plenty for me as I still don't use a logging program. Paper and pencil, so this was rough but fun. I missed a few DM's Sunday, they were calling and popping up on FT8, but I was not able to log them for the contact. My split was 154 SSB QSO's and 83 FT-8 | N4NIV | Single Op All | 50 MHz - MFJ 9406 to TE Sys. 0510G amp to PAR Elec. OA-50 omni antenna up 21 ft 144 MHz - Kenwood TR751A to PAR Electronics OA-144 omni antenna up 24 feet | N4NSS | Single Op All | Gave it a try since I could hear stations with a wire antenna | N4PN | Single Op 6M | NICE OPENING FOR A FEW HOURS EACH DAY. THANKS TO ALL WHO SHOWED UP ON CW AND SSB. BEST 'DX' WAS N7IR (2538kM). NICE TO SEE SO MANY OLE FREINDS AND SOME NEW ONES | N4TZ | Single Op 6M | I saw lots of people making JA and EU QSOs on my FT8 screen Heard nothing like that here, but thrilled to work 4M6R and EA8DBM plus a bunch of new states with my makeshift antenna. Sure makes me want to put up a 6 meter antenna! | N6LB | Single Op All | The logging road to 4200 feet is overgrown | N6ZE | Single Op 6M | I decided to run the contest, 6 meters only, from my DM04ne home QTH. First 24 hours hum-drum: little openings on FT-8 from Tijuana, Mexico (DM12) along coastal CA, OR, WA locations to Campbell River, Vancouver Island (CO70) with no openings to the East. Summary of the last 3 hours: WOW!! A 40 minute Sporadic E opening to the East had lots of SSB activity. For last 45 minutes of the contest there was also a great Sporadic E opening to the home territory (SEA&PDX) of the Pacific Northwest VHF Society so I got to communicate with lots of my PNW VHF friends also, but only one VE7 heard all weekend. 1 fm qso; 11 ssb qso; 61 ft8. 76QSO/40Grids ft756 pro2 + 5 element M2 @ 4 meters above ground | N7EPD | Single Op All | Ran with a barefoot FT857D (100w 6/ 50W 2), 6M Moxon and 2M 6el WA5VJB cheap yagi from an empty parking lot at a resort near Long Beach, WA. Used a new Harbor Freight 2KW inverter generator and it performed marvelously-NO RFI to the rig! Worked as much SSB/ CW as possible but FT8 was the place to be. Most QSO would not have been possible from this location without FT8 but even when signals were pegging the S meter no one found on SSB. Hope I gave a few a new one from CN76 | N7MZW | Single Op All | Icom IC-7300 with 100 watts. Heil Pro Micro Headset on VOX. 2 element home brewed Cubical Quad pointing N/W at 25 feet height on roof eve mount. Just a couple of hours Op time on Six Meters only. I'm located just two blocks from the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo stadium,and park cars in my driveway during the Rodeos and Night Concerts for twenty buck each.Great to work Mexico,as well as a few members of my Grand Mesa Contesters of Colorado club! I worked my only rover,AB0YM in my own Grid Square of DN71 with just 8 minutes left in the event.I used the audio voice recorder on the IC-7300,and was always surprised when a loud signal came back to my call.I'm still new enough on the Six Meter 'Magic Band',to get excited about DX and any new grid square.Thanks to all that worked me. November Seven Many Zebras Walking-Chuck-DN-71-Laramie County.from the capital of Cheyenne,Wyoming | N7VD | Single Op All | I did a very minor effort as I had lost my 2M amp 45 min into the contest and had other things come up Saturday. I did work a few on Sunday during the brief 6M openings. I'll be adding 33cm (and possibly 23cm if I get an antenna in time) to the station for the September VHF/UHF contest | N8GA | Multi-Op | Best score ever thanks to FT8 and a little bit of a 6m opening | N8VW | Single Op All | Finally got 2meters going. Looks like I missed most of the good prop. Please create a low power category for this contest | N9OU | Single Op 6M | Summer lightning storms stopped both afternoons short, but not before some great propagation before I had to QRT! On Sunday, the lightning got close enough and created enough havoc that I had to QRT before I could get AF1T's grid even after several tries--sorry about that, OM! Operated as a 6m-only station. Started on USB and went to FT8 when it seemed dead FT8 was where most ops were! 23 Qs on USB vs 68 on FT8! 18 grids on USB and 44 on FT8! One nice part about FT8 was I could see the grid before and the color told me it was a missing grid, so chasing new grids were definitely easier. Heard Italy several times coming into Florida on Sunday, but Italy couldn't hear me | NN5T | Single Op 6M | No body shows up on SSB/CW on any VHF contest. The band condix was incredible. I was hoping to compare FT8 and FT4, but no FT4 activity at this time | ON6AT | Single Op 6M | Yaesu FT-950 100w ANT: EPS ANTENNA 3Elb 50Mhz It was the first time I participated in this contest. Did not hear many stations in SSB and also not in FT4. Saw a lot of spots in NA but it was quiet in the EU. The LOW power category was not accepted via the online website service | PA2REH | Single Op 6M | Was fun, with some Es. All 73 | PC3T | Checklog | I could not have fun as I expected but one QSO | R2FI | Single Op 2M | TNX 73! | RA0LQ/R | Rover | Black Sea, from Novorossiysk to Istanbul onboard Tanker | RJ7M | Single Op 2M | My first WW VHF Contest | RW3VA | Single Op 2M | 73! | RX6APY | Hilltopper | ic-290 | SP9EMI | Single Op 6M | TRX FT857D 85 w Ant X-2000 | TC3H | Multi-Op | tnx best 73 | UR3QTN | Single Op QRP | ALINCO DR-130, 6 el yagi | US8AR | Single Op 2M | Thanks to the organizers for the wonderful contest, which every year is a great pleasure. Good luck! See you next year | UT1KY/P | Single Op All | trcvr FLEX-3000,YAESU FT 100D, 2x5 El YAGI Antenna 6 m, 13 EL logoperiodic 2 m | UT5ECZ | Single Op QRP | Power: 10 Watts, ANT: 4el Yagi | UT7UA/P | Single Op 6M | trcvr FLEX-3000, 2x5 El YAGI Antenna! Manu thanks for the great contest! | VA3PC | Single Op 6M | Modified file after the fact to show DG for digital contacts - unsure what writelog would have showed, because integration with wsjt-x not working | VE2NCG | Single Op QRP | Nice openning on 6m on saturday, more difficult on sunday |
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