CQ World Wide VHF Contest
CQ World Wide VHF Contest
| Call | Category | Comments | VE3CRU | Hilltopper | Too hot to rove, went to Seniors Centr to cool off. On the way home, stopped at a large sports field less than 1 km from shoreline of Lake Ontario and powered up the gear. Booming in, first off back of beam then off front was N0YK in DM98, WOW. Then heard N0LL in EM calling repeatedly with no replies so called him with 10W and 9 elmts 9 feet above the ground, got him first try ssb. Heard many in TX but did not call them. Paused 2 hours for food, then returned for more tries. The sporadic E's were gone, but locals were listening, plus VE3SMA in FN05. Got 7 in total and headed home, happy. Digi is never used by me, and is reducing the potential ssb/cw qso's. I avoided the 6m band dominated by most. No ON4KST either, have no computer on the road. Thanks to sponsor CQ and new Director John K9JK plus team, and all who participated. Looking forward to next year. 73, Bill Burgess VE3CRU | VE3DS | Single Op All | Had some fun on 6 m CW and SSB, good to hear all the activity back on the low end of the band! Lots of locals on as well glad to see VE's in there contesting on VHF! | VE3OAT | Single Op 6M | ALL QSOS MODE FT8. LOTS OF FUN BUT PROPAGATION SO-SO. HOPE I GOT THE CABRILLO FORMAT CORRECT | VE3RVZ | Single Op All | Processing balked at my: Line 8 CATEGORY-POWER entry is wrong. Allowed values are HIGH, LOW, or QRP. CATEGORY-POWER: LOW Red text is the error. Blue text was found in your log. Please correct any errors in your log file and upload again. The form below contains the header information from your log. Please review and make any corrections. OK, if your own processor says I can use HIGH, LOW or QRP, then balks at LOW, I have to put HIGH, I wasn't operating QRP, but you'll need to correct the confusion. Thanks for a great contest! | VE3SMA | Multi-Op | Operated from Lake Joseph, District of Muskoka, ON (FN05ce) | VE3VHB | Single Op 6M | Looking for new grids, but only managed one. Sad to see so much FT8 activity on 6M on the cluster instead of CW/SSB in the contest | VE7DAY | Single Op All | Pretty much a digital contest but lots of fun | W0ETT | Single Op All | Saturday 6m Es to W1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, and VE3 - also 2m Es to W1VD FN31 | W1FKF | Single Op All | Great 6 mtr opening | W1QK | Hilltopper | Thank you for sponsoring the contest. Was a Hilltopper again for this one | W2KV | Single Op All | Operation was from Ship Bottom NJ FM29vp. 2 meters was running 100W to 7 elements at 35 feet. 6 meters was 100W to a 40 meter dipole (!) fed with too much coax. 6 was wide open for much of the contest and I could work everything I could hear even with the improvised antenna. Stations in fields DM, DN, EM, EN, EL, FN, FM and FL were worked. All activity was on SSB and CW. Great fun and the magic band was really showing its stuff. 73 Dave W2KV | W3DHJ/R | Rover | The Saturday 2M Es was a nice touch. HI!HI! The massive thunderstorms shortly thereafter were NOT | W3HKK | Single Op 6M | 800w to 5 el yagi at 20 ft. N1MM+ Great Day 1 cndx. Fair Day 2 but hvy Tstorm qrm | W3RFC | Multi-Op | some great openings and some great quiet times. that is a VHF CONTEST. SEE YOU ALL IN THE NEXT ONE. 73 THE W3RFC CONTEST CONTRIBUTORS | W4INK | Single Op 6M | THIS WAS MY FIRST CONTEST (OTHER THAN ARRL FIELD DAY 2019). PICKED UP MANY NEW GRIDS! HAD A BLAST! | W4POT/R | Rover | Operation shortened by vehicle mechanical issues | W8HW | Single Op 6M | Used WSJT-x on FT8 | W8KNO | Single Op All | Saturday only, Sunday was Family Reunion! | W8MRL | Single Op 6M | QTH - Hamilton, OH | W9HQ | Single Op All | I operated in the CQ VHF contest by myself for a few hours and had a blast! There was a significant opening on 6 meters -- it seemed to start to the south and then moved south east and east as the afternoon progressed. One thing I did differently in this contest was call CQ more on 6 meters, rather doing mostly search and pounce on other strong signals. I've always considered myself a 'little gun' station, so I would just look for those that seemed stronger. But the CQing actually worked great and several times I'd find myself in a mini pile-up, which was quite exciting. EN43 isn't super rare, but it's not super common either, so perhaps that helped. So whereas KC9JTL and I only got about 27 QSOs from the home QTH during the ARRL contest, I ended up getting well over 80 in the CQ contest. That was eclipsed by what some others were able to do, of course, but for me that's quite good | W9IHW | Checklog | Submitted to help verify others scores | W9KVR | Single Op 6M | Was able to work some phone and digital with an amazing opening on Saturday. I was able to work alot of close grid squares including several ATNO's!...most multi's I've worked in a VHF contest | WA1KRG | Single Op 6M | Operated the contest using the XYL's callsign. Great 6M CW fun! | WA2VJL | Single Op 6M | Poor beginning of contest but soared Sunday morning | WA4JQS | Single Op 6M | only got to operate a few hours . very bad Thunderstorms all weekend in Ky. but was fun the band was up and down. hope to see everyone next year 73 Tony WA4JQS | WA6POZ | Single Op 6M | I should get a better antenna. Used a ground plane at 25 feet | WB8WUA | Single Op All | Had fun - would have earned a higher score if had I participated on Sat. afternoon. Luckily the 6 meter wave conditions were good on Sunday afternoon also (GOOD PATH BETWEEN OH & FL). The 2 meter band was not so good. Thanks for the contest | WC4H | Single Op 6M | Antenna is MFJ-1699S 45 inch Vertical on Balcony | WD6DX | Single Op QRP | Quiet till almost the last hour then opened into AZ. Running 3 Watts into a G5RVjr at 15 ft. Thanks to all | WF4R | Single Op 6M | Computer lockup Murffee's Law | WS9V | Multi-Op | Thanks for all the QSO's | YO2GL | Single Op All | IT HAS BEEN A PARALLEL CONTEST 'MARATON YO VHF / UHF' IN THE 2M BAND . TX FT897 + PA 400W ON 2M, ANT 10 EL. TX 50W IN 6M ANT 4 EL. 73 | YO5DAS | Single Op All | FT450 D 100W ANT HEXBEAM, 3EL YAGY |
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