CQ World Wide VHF Contest
CQ World Wide VHF Contest
| Call | Category | Comments | K5ZD | Single Op All | Could only find QSOs on FT8 | K6LMN/R | Rover | 6m open to Pacific northwest on Saturday eve but dead on Sunday morning | K6OAK | Single Op 6M | Nice 6M opening Saturday night from the Bay Area to the Seattle - Vancouver BC area | K7BHM | Single Op 6M | Decided to enter Contest on Sunday morning for a few hours. Surprised that 6 Meters was open. Thanks to all who gave me a point......Bob - K7BHM | K7IU | Single Op All | Lousy conditions throughout most of the contest. And with my rotor stuck East it wasn't pretty | K8LF | Single Op 6M | Was happy to assist KE4WMF Scott from our local radio club. Scott was a new 1st time rover.. Scott called with questions after his 1st day with no contacts. He started making FT8 contacts on Sunday after a couple of adjustments to his radio and FT8 settings. I missed out on the better conditions on Saturday as I was operating the NAQP RTTY. I only got in about an hour on VHF on Saturday. On Sunday the conditions were not good. I usually like to get about 50 QSOs in the log from any nation wide contest but ended up with only 38. All my contacts were on FT8. I tried FT4 a couple of times but never heard or had any answers from CQs. I tried to call a couple of SSB stations that I heard but never could get a response | KA0PQW | Single Op All | pritty much an ft8 contest. maybe you could have an analog category. Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw | KD6EFQ/R | Rover | Fun opening on Saturday p.m. allowed phone QSOs into BC WA OR ID and later towards east into NM TX. Portable antenna: loop on a modest mast used for 50MHz operations. 6m phone QSOs were quicker pace than FT8 and fun for contest ops. 2m ops constrained by other events | KD6HOF/R | Rover | Rover in CM99,CM98,CM88 | KE0MHJ | Hilltopper | Few hour operation, first time QRP. IC-705 | KE1R | Single Op 6M | Very few DX stations heard on 6m from Connecticut. Never saw Alaska | KG5EIU | Single Op 6M | Bands were spotty but still had fun!! | KN4SM | Single Op 6M | 50w out to 4 elm. @ 20 ft arm strong method of rotation | KO4HMB | Single Op 6M | Operating portable from POTA park K-7839 | KQ4KX | Single Op All | 6m - Kenwood TS-890 2m - Icom IC-9700 Antenna - Create CLP-5130-1N Log-Periodic @ 33' AGL | KS1G | Single Op 2M | 1st time I've entered this event. Used my HF OCF dipole on 6M, happy how well it worked | KV4ZY | Single Op All | Casual operating just for fun | KX7L | Single Op All | Activity seemed a bit lower than usual, but we did have a couple of nice openings, especially late on Saturday night into California. Thanks for the QSO's! | LY5W | Single Op 6M | Very bad propagation | M1VPN | Single Op 6M | Poor conditions, Low QSO count and my first CQ WW VHF Contest, but did enjoy the new contest | N0HJZ | Single Op 2M | Sure wish more people would call on SSB/CW. Signals were great but no one was on | N0JK | Single Op 6M | Only had limited time to operate. Main goal was trying to work N7PHY DN67. Strong Es Sunday morning to Florida and Arizona on 6 | N0LD | Single Op 6M | Enjoyed some casual qsos! | N1SFE | Single Op All | First VHF contest entering in mixed mode. Didn't hear much activity on 6 meter SSB or 2 meter SSB on Saturday. Picked up a few Q's on 50 and 144 SSB Sunday morning. All the rest of the Qs were made on 6 meter ft8. Was hoping the band was going to open on 6 Sunday afternoon, but it didn't seem to happen. It was a pleasant surprise to work N1JEZ in FN44 on 2 meters SSB! | N2SFS | Single Op 6M | Six was open Saturday PM- after that deceased | N4DLA | Single Op 6M | Please change this to a digital-only contest since most entrants in my area never get on voice or CW any more | N4QV | Single Op All | Wow... Conditions were pretty bad here this year. Only made only 4 SSB contacts.. 2 on 6 meters and 2 on 2 meters. All of the rest was on FT8. I never saw any FT4! Lots of line noise this year as well. Hopefully conditions will improve for next year | N6AN | Single Op QRP | Tree People grounds, portable. KX3, 5 watts, 6 meter square loop at 10', 2 meter portable J-pole at 12'. Heard five beacons. Made six QSOs. Also heard N6AR in FL for best SWL DX | N6IC | Single Op 6M | Being in LAX and trying to work 6meters is hard low power with propagation poor but Sunday did open to Texas plus for a few | N6ZE/7 | Single Op All | Missed most of contest due to 1200 mile road trip on Friday/Saturday: but did manage a few QSO on Saturday night & Sunday morning. Most QSOs on FT8 low power with TV rabbit ears for 6m & KQ Mini Loop for 2m. No Es noted. Thanks to 'CQ' for sponsoring the Contest | N8KH | Single Op 6M | Had problems with both vox and foot switch on USB. I really liked seeing a bunch of operators using CW and SSB during the first hour when 6m was wide open. FT8 is ok, but not when the band is wide open | N8WL | Single Op 6M | Band Condx were awful! Each QSO was a struggle | N9TF | Single Op 6M | Still putting the shack and antennas back together from our move last year to TN. Only have a 3 element beam for 6m up at 18' behind the shed. No rotor so made several trips out to the shed to turn the beam via the armstrong method! No time to operate Saturday. Poor conditions Sunday, so poked around for FFMA and VUCC needed grids. Called CQ on CW and phone occasionally. Only heard K5AM CQing on CW, but never heard me call. Hopefully next year I'll have things back together for 6m and also have the full weekend to play. 73 Gene, N9TF Clarksville TN. EM66IJ | NE1B | Single Op All | Poor 6 meter conditions in the Northeast. Better multi-hop Es before and after the contest. In general, Saturday Es were better than Sunday. Similar on 2 meters, minimal tropo. Lots of confusion at the contest start getting operators to switch to Contest mode on digital. Conflict between DXers and Contesters as usual on digital mode. I suggest separate Contest Frequencies be published and promoted with WSJT | NJ4Q | Single Op 6M | Pretty poor band conditions. A small opening to 0 land but that was about it. de NJ4Q in VA | NR0Q | Single Op 6M | Had a lot of fun, this was my first CQ contest in a number of years. The band wasn't that great but made a good effort of what prop I did have | NV4C | Single Op 6M | Horrible band conditions on 6m this weekend, but still had fun operating. A bit disappointed I didn't hear a singe CW signal at my QTH | OK4DJ | Single Op 2M | TRX Yaesu FT-991A ANT OK5IM 4el Yagi ASL 6m AGL 756m PWR 50W Activated GMA summit OL/VY-234 KOCIHO KOPEC | PV2B | Multi-Op | CDR GROUP | PY2QB | Single Op 2M | Too | PY2TDB | Hilltopper | DOUBLE ACTIVATION: SOTA PY2/SE-002 AND POTA PY-0260 | PY2WOT | Single Op All | 73 py2wot | PY3DCC | Single Op 6M | RADIOFAROL DX GROUP | S56P | Single Op 2M | Vy nice contest as always! 73's | SM7I | Single Op 2M | It used to be more activity on CW and Phone BITD | SV1NZX | Single Op 6M | Fun to be back in this VHF contest, new squares worked, old friends seen, equip used was a 4el EF0604 and 897/100w. FT8 was the dominant mode, although people tried to be active on SSB and CW, there just wasn't enough interest. JA and Pacific was seen/worked mid-day EU but also Asian stations (YB, VU) were heard and worked well into the late EU afternoon of the 17th. Around 1700z, TEP conditions came up, meaning that V5 and ZS were heard and worked from a few, including me. This, however, also signaled a shutdown of sporadic-E conditions for the rest of the evening.. Glad to have taken part, will be looking to next year :) | TA3E | Multi-Op | TNX 73/88 | TG9AJR | Single Op 6M | First time in the CQWW VHF on FT8 started using JTDX realize that almost everyone were using WSJTX so I switched | TM7B | Single Op 6M | Bad condx are better than no condx ! The result didn't justify the efforts of setting up a portable station, staying overnight in a car TS-590SG + PA / 120W / 5-ele / 1260m-4130ft asl | VA2VT | Single Op QRP | After winning the Hilltopper category last year (with my old callsign VE2NCG) I went to the same mountain in FN45 with the goal to beat my score of last year, not only I beat it, I have make twice as much... The contest was slow to start this year with 6m closed exept for 2 mexicans stations and I was lucky to contact one of them, after working the ususals locals, 6m was begining to open and lots of qso's were done. When at the same spot on sunday but nothing really on 6 but I was able to work FN20 and FN31 on 2m, quite a feat with my 10w, so I have finished the contest quite burned but happy with 7735 pts, hope this is enough to win this year too! VA2VT |
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