CQ World Wide VHF Contest
CQ World Wide VHF Contest
| Call | Category | Comments | 7L4IOU | Single Op 6M | Thank you for the wonderful contest! | 9A2ZH | Single Op QRP | FT-817 QRP | 9G2HO | Single Op 6M | I could get 2 stations | AA8SW | Single Op 6M | 1ST LICENSED 08/2017 | AA8TA | Single Op 6M | Some nice activity this might be the most stations that I have found on 6m in one contest. I have a home-made halo at about 15 feet off of the ground and it was getting into CO, KS, FL, TX and New England and a few other areas. Lots of fun | AC4G | Single Op 6M | COULD NOT OPERATE LONG DUE TO HOT WATER HEATER BLOWING UP | AE4M | Single Op 6M | First VHF contest | AJ6T | Single Op All | Lost time struggling with WSJT-X problems after installing version 2.10 but finally got that working. I ran two instances of WSJT-X on a single PC, controlling separate radios on 6 and 2 meters. WSJT-X played fairly well with N1MM+, but there was some confusion with stations not running contest mode. The CQWW VHF contest rules are a bit self-contradictory, and I wish we had been playing by the ARRL rules allowing skeds. Six meter E-skip propagation was only fair toward the west, but New England was into Alabama for most of the contest. I made some QSOs with new mode FT4, and I was surprised at the number of repeats required on that mode even with strong signals. I'm looking forward to smoother integration of WSJT-X with N1MM+. I heard some 2m E-skip signals on SSB Saturday afternoon, but my 50 watts were not enough to break through the QRM to snag stations in North Dakota and Minnesota | AK4FL | Single Op All | FT8: Some just start calling CQ, but forget to answer. Many forget to check the box to Hold TX freq which slows QSO down | DK2LO | Single Op 6M | 6m contest allowed now in DL, but power limit 25 watts. So first try for me but condx poor today in north-DL | DL4XU | Single Op 6M | Kenwood TS-890 25 Watt out Ant.: HO Loop on balcony in abt 30m over ground | E74G | Single Op 2M | It's verry hot temperatur during the contest, it's 36 degradees celzijus! | EA1HRR | Single Op All | 73 to all R/TX | EA3GYE/P | Single Op QRP | JN12NG (N.E. SPAIN) | EA8AQV | Single Op All | Yaesu FT-897D Cubex Queen Bee II 70 watt | ES5TF | Single Op 6M | Rig Icom IC-9100, PWR 100 W, ANT homemade 28 ohm 4el DK7ZB with 2.2m boom | ES5TO | Multi-Op | 2x M2 cross-yagi with 6m boom, ICOM IC-9100, power 100 W | HB9CAT | Single Op All | fun contest, will try harder next year | IT9CKA | Single Op 6M | Ottima propagazione nella seconda giornata del contest, molta presenza in Europa, solo 100watt Antenna GP e TS-2000 | IW1DQS | Single Op 6M | It is the first time that I have participated in this contest, the time was not magnanimous but I enjoyed the next year IW1DQS | JA1CRJ | Single Op 6M | Thank you for FB DX QSO on 6m Band | JA6WFM | Single Op 6M | I could enjoy VHF contest. IC-7600 10 elements Yagi | JE1ILP | Single Op QRP | Using IC7300S 5W output and LW ANT | JF1RYU | Single Op All | I enjoyed the contest | JF1WCK | Single Op 6M | I enjoyed the contest | JF7KWS | Single Op 2M | I enjoyed the contest | JH1PHK | Single Op 6M | I enjoyed the contest | JH4PUS | Single Op 2M | I enjoyed the contest | JH7AAW | Checklog | power 50w | JJ7PMS | Single Op 2M | power 10w | JK1TCV | Single Op QRP | I used power less than 5W | JN1OKV | Single Op QRP | I enjoyed the contest | JP1LRT | Single Op 6M | I enjoyed the contest | K0UK | Single Op All | Worked N0GTO, KC0VDY, AK0MR, W9RM, W7SAO, N0KE, W0ETT, WE7L,KE0MM. GB | K1GQ | Single Op All | SkookumLogger K3S KPA1500 OB40-2 2XA-3B-12L wires | K1TO | Single Op 6M | Finally some fun condx at the end of an otherwise poor season! | K2HVE | Single Op 6M | SUPER CONDITIONS ON SATURDAY!!! | K3TW | Single Op QRP | 'My operating time was limited due to thunderstorms, yet it was a great experience to have 6 meters wide open again!' | K4CGY | Single Op 6M | Better than last year but need more operators | K5CKS | Single Op 6M | Great openings this year! | K5TA | Single Op 6M | The log-check program will NOT accept LOW as my power level | K5TU | Single Op 6M | 20W and an attic wire loop | K5XU | Single Op 6M | Fun despite thunderstorms and high swr | K5YVY | Single Op 6M | Great time on VHF! Thanks | K5ZG | Single Op All | GREAT 2 METER SAT OPEING TO NY MI OH AND VE3 JUST GOT ON TWO METERS AFER 10 YRS | K7BWH | Single Op 6M | I like to explore mountaintops in the Pacific NW. For this contest, I drove to Idaho and set up at 6,000' in DN27dk, high above the ski area at Lookout Pass on I-90. The ID-MT border follows this ridge line and I was just barely on the Idaho side. I operated only FT8 and only the last three hours of the contest. After the CQ WW contest, I went on to activate two more grid squares, DN26qp and DN07dk | K7SMA | Single Op 6M | Really slow- opening to SoCal in the last hour! | K7XC | Single Op All | There Actually Was Es for the July 2019 CQ VHF Contest, Go Figure! Nothing earth shattering but OK single hope stuff. Worked DL99 for an ATNO FFMA Grid which is very cool! Too many out of sequence locals made for tough sledding at times. A few stations active on 6M FT8 had 'dramatically over-driven audio', wiping out the entire audio spectrum! This kind of stupidity make me really hate FT8 at times!!! Thank God some folks were still on good old fashioned Analog SSB which I truly enjoyed. 144 MHz was a complete and total BUST! NOT ONE STATION OUTSIDE OF DM09 WAS ON 144.200 SSB/CW!!! Using FT8 on 144.174 to contact people whom we normally work on SSB/CW IS STUPID! The power of FT8 is simply squandered on short paths, while getting in the way of anyone else working trying legitimate long haul tropo as their receivers are desensed by the extremely loud locals! What a hugely disappointing display of pointless activity! | K8CN | Single Op QRP | Wandered into the shack in the midst of chores, saw all the activity on the panadapter, and decided to jump in for just a half-hour or so! Wish I'd had time earlier in the day - nice sporadic E into the southeast U.S | K9GY | Single Op 6M | Nice to see magic band open on a contest weekend! |
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