2019 CQ WW VHF Contest

Callsign	Score	State or Province	Category	Bands	QSOs	Points	Grids	Rover Grids Activated	Grids Activated	PNW Grids Worked
K5QE*	156403	TX	Multi-Op	AB	598	689	227		EM31
K7CW	12672	WA	SOSB	A	176	176	72		CN87	21
W7FI	9536	WA	SOAB	AB	132	149	64		CN87	18
VE7DAY	8591	BC	SOAB	AB	117	121	71		CO70	14
KE7MSU /R	5375	OR	Rover	AB	106	125	43	3	see below	9
KE7SW	3328	WA	SOAB	AB	82	104	32		CN87	13
N6ZE*	3000	CA	SOSB	A	75	75	40		DM04	10
K7YDL	2987	OR	SOAB	AB	80	103	29		CN85	14
W6OAT	2870	WA	SOSB	A	82	82	35		CN87	13
N7EPD	1890	WA	SOAB	AB	52	63	30		CN76	12
KD7UO	1474	WA	SOAB	AB	54	67	22		CN87	10
KX7L	1026	WA	SOAB	AB	49	54	19		CN87	8
N6LB	1008	WA	SOAB	AB	40	56	18		CN98	8
N7QOZ	832	WA	SOAB	AB	37	64	13		CN87	10
N7DB	555	OR	SOAB	AB	29	37	15		CN85	6
KG7P	407	WA	SOAB	AB	31	37	11		CN87	9
N6KW	407	WA	SOAB	AB	29	37	11		CN87	7
K6UM	360	OR	SOSB	A	24	24	15		CN85	7
NJ7A*	198	UT	SOAB	AB	15	18	11		DN30	2
K7SMA	180	OR	SOSB	A	20	20	9		DN13	3
W7TZ	99	OR	SOSB	A	11	11	9		CN83	3
K7BWH	88	ID	SOSB	A	11	11	8		DN27	4
AI9Q	65	WA	SOSB	A	13	13	5		CN85	3
K7ATN	20	OR	Hilltopper	B	5	10	2		CN95	2
K7IMA	20	OR	Hilltopper	B	5	10	2		CN95	2
W6ABM	9	OR	Hilltopper	A	3	3	3		CN82	2

* = PNWVHFS Member operating outside the Society region. Not eligible for PNWVHFS Awards.
** = Log received late, not eligible for PNWVHFS Awards.

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

PNWVHFS Award Winners

Certificates at the PNWVHFS Conference in October 2019
Hilltopper: K7IMA/K7ATN-OR
Rover: KE7MSU/R - OR
Single-Op All Band: VE7DAY-BC, K7YDL - OR, W7FI-WA
Single-Op Single Band: K6UM-OR, K7CW-WA

Additional Information

K5QE Multi-Op EM31 Operators K5QE, K5MQ, N5YA, N1XS, AE5AE, KC4SW, AF8Z, KA5D

VE7DAY SOAB BC CO70: Pretty much a digital contest but lots of fun.

KE7MSU/R Rover OR: Activated CN85 CN86 CN87, Worked CN76 CN82 CN84 CN85 CN87 CN88 CN93 CN97 CN98

N6ZE SOSB 50 MHz DM04: 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 IC756 pro2 + 5 element M2 @ 4 meters above ground.

N7EPD SOAB CN76: 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.

KX7L SOAB CN87: 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...

K7BWH SOSB 50 MHz DN27: 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. This place was interesting: further down the unpaved road was an FAA Air Traffic Control radar dome golf ball with huge words "Stay back at least 150 feet." So I went a half-mile west to a good clearing. It had the most high-tech weather station I've ever seen, labelled NOAA ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System), complete with camera stalks facing each other and flashing lights and a small blue merry-go-round.  I've been around the block a few times but didn't recognize most of the measurement devices. After the CQ WW contest, I went on to activate two more grid squares over the next two days, DN26qp and DN07dk. As long as I was driving by in Montana, I stopped in to see Lance W7GJ. Fun visit. Lance has assembled some great gear. Just for fun, here are some pictures of his antennas and of the man himself.