2013 CQ WW VHF Contest

26 Logs Received

Published 2013-10-10

Callsign	Score	State Province	Category	Bands	QSOs	Points	Grids	Rover Grids Activated	Grids Activated	PNW Grids Worked	Operators
K5QE*	187856	TX	Multi-Op	AB	704	796	236	--	EM31	11	see below
K7CW	38500	WA	SO 50 MHz	A	385	385	100	--	CN87	14	K7CW
VE7JH	30710	BC	Multi-Op	AB	330	384	80	--	CN88	14	VE7JH
WW7D/R	19656	WA	Rover	AB	377	468	42	7	see below	13	WW7D
KD7UO	18414	WA	SO All-Band	AB	258	297	62	--	CN87	13	KD7UO
K7AWB	16524	WA	SO All-Band	AB	236	243	68	--	DN17	4	K7AWB
KI7JA	16170	OR	SO All-Band	AB	191	231	70	--	CN85	13	KI7JA
VE7DAY	9768	BC	SO All-Band	AB	218	222	44	--	CO70	8	VE7DAY
AL1VE	9246	WA	SO All-Band	AB	186	201	46	--	CN87	8	AL1VE
KB7ME	8372	WA	SO All-Band	AB	137	161	52	--	CN85	13	KB7ME
KX7L	7350	WA	SO All-Band	AB	161	175	42	--	CN87	9	KX7L
K7IP	5960	WA	Multi-Op	AB	129	149	40	--	CN88	9	see below
N7DB	5940	OR	SO All-Band	AB	130	135	44	--	CN85	3	N7DB
W7BX	5085	OR	SO 50 MHz	A	113	113	45	--	DN05	7	W7BX
K7ND	3536	WA	SO All-Band	AB	73	104	34	--	CN87	10	K7ND
W7GLF	3052	WA	SO QRP	AB	82	109	28	--	CN87	10	W7GLF
KD7TS	2832	WA	SO All-Band	AB	82	118	24	--	CN87	9	KD7TS
KG7P	2484	WA	SO All-Band	AB	67	92	27	--	CN87	9	KG7P
N7EPD	2236	WA	SO All-Band	AB	63	86	26	--	CN87	10	N7EPD
KB7DQH	2059	WA	SO All-Band	AB	67	71	29	--	CN87	6	KB7DQH
N6ZE*	1612	CA	SO All-Band	AB	54	62	26	--	DM04	18	N6ZE
KA7RRA	1340	WA	SO All-Band	AB	61	67	20	--	CN88	5	KA7RRA
K7WIA	800	WA	SO All-Band	AB	35	40	20	--	CN87	5	K7WIA
W6LLP	780	WA	SO All-Band	AB	37	39	20	--	DN17	3	W6LLP
W7BI	286	WA	Multi-Op	A	26	26	11	--	CN97	8	see below
W7PU	35	WA	SO QRP	AB	5	7	5	--	CN88	3	N7EPD

* = PNWVHFS Member operating outside the Society region. Not eligible for PNWVHFS Awards.

Band Codes: A - 50 MHz, B - 144 MHz

PNWVHFS AWARD WINNERS
Certificates at the PNWVHFS Conference in October 2013
Multioperator: VE7JH-BC, K7IP-WA
Rover: WW7D/R - WA
Single-Op All Band: VE7DAY - BC, KI7JA-OR, KD7UO-WA
Single-Op 50 MHz: W7BX-OR, K7CW-WA
Single-Op QRP: W7GLF-WA

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

K5QE Multi-Op EM31. Operators: K5QE, K5MQ, N5NU, N1XS, N5YA, N5KDA, KE5VKZ
Contest started out very poorly. Prop was awful. Slowly it improved. EME was truly awful this time.

WW7D/R Rover Grids Activated: CN85 CN86 CN87 CN88 CN96 CN97 CN98

Another spectacular contest with Es openings on both days. The full story is found here: http://tinyurl.com/ww7dCQWW13.

KI7JA SO All-Band: Great openings on 6M made this contest REALLY fun,

AL1VE SO All-Band: First CQ VHF contest from PNW, really surprised by amount of activity both local and dx, especially on 50 Mhz. While I only got to operate between household chores I had a blast.

KX7L SO All-Band: Very interesting Es propagation in the NW - a very long and persistent opening into SoCal and AZ Saturday night, and another long opening to the same area Sunday morning. I guess if you're going to be open to just one area during a contest, that's the area you want. Thanks for all the Q's.

K7IP Multi-Op Operators: K7IP, KG7HQ, K7OFT, VE6VQ, WA7FUS, W7OUU, KS7DX
Six meter conditions, while not superb in the PNW, were much improved over 2012.

N6ZE SO All-Band: 6 Meters provided 2 extensive long openings to the Pacific Northwest, and in fact I had as many QSOs with PNWVHFS area guys as I do when I operate VHF contests from CN87/88! I heard nothing to the East of DN35 and other than SoCal grids, all grids worked were from Southern Oregon through CO70 and Eastward to DN17. I did not have my beam pointed Easterly very often, but did not really hear any W6s working to the East. Note: my neighbor's dog barks loudly at any sound, and in particular, when I release the rotator brake! At various times, 50.080 - 50.100 MHz were jammed with many high speed CW signals and SSB activity frequently was heard to just above 50.200 MHz. Despite the fact I've operated from DM04 for 20 years, I did manage to pick up 1 new grid DN05 (W7BX). I heard VE7DAY (CO70) during most of Saturday evening, but did not manage to work him until noon PDT on Sunday. I made very few contacts on 2 meters because my M>2 2M5WL was in a fixed position to the East and pointing up about 30 degrees. However, I did manage to work DM12 and actually heard K6MYC in DM07 on SSB on Sunday morning. Activity levels on 2 meters appeared to be very low for this contest.

KA7RRA SO All-Band: It was fun.

W7BI Multi-Op Operators: AC7SB N7BK WE7X