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2023 ARRL June VHF Contest

44 Logs Received

Updated 2023-10-01
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Callsign	Score	Region	Category	Bands	QSOs	Points	Grids	Rover Grids Activated	Grids Activated	PNW Grids Worked
K5QE *	364,854	STX	LM	ABDE	984	1024	356	0	EM31	16
W7MEM	129,704	ID	SOHP	AB	523	523	240	0	DN17	13
AL1VE/R *	103,592	KS	RL	A	563	563	184	6	See notes below	11
W7FI	86,714	WWA	SOHP	ABD	263	452	454	0	CN87	17
N0LL *	84,480	KS	SOLP	ABCD	414	420	202	0	EM09	18
N7PHY *	63,336	UT	SOHP	A	365	365	173	0	DN47	7
KI0E	50,240	ID	SOLP	ABCD9EFH	276	314	159	0	DN13	9
AB9BH	38,304	WWA	SOLP	ABD	281	288	133	0	CN87	10
NR7Y	35,990	OR	SOLP	ABCDE	276	295	122	0	CN85	7
VE7DAY	34,968	BC	SOLP	ABCDE	245	249	144	0	CO70	10
KB7ME	26,015	WWA	SOHP	AB	215	215	120	0	CN85	9
K7MDL	25,300	WWA	SOHP	ABCD9E	216	253	100	0	CN88	15
W7TZ	22,172	OR	SOHP	AB	194	194	117	0	CN83	10
KX7L	22,113	WWA	SOLP	AB	243	243	91	0	CN87	9
N7NW	21,115	WWA	SOHP	AB	205	205	103	0	CN87	13
N7DB	17,340	OR	SOLP	ABCD	192	198	87	0	CN85	9
AD7MC	14,620	WWA	SO3B	ABD	167	170	86	0	CN85	11
N6ZE	14,036	WWA	SO-ALG-LP	ACD9E	227	242	58	0	CN88	5
K7SYS	13,363	ID	SOLP	AB	161	161	83	0	DN18	3
K7YDL	13,188	OR	SOHP	AB	155	155	84	0	CN85	14
KG7P	12,358	WWA	SOHP	ABCDE	138	167	74	0	CN87	14
WA7BRL	11,972	WWA	SOLP	A	164	164	73	0	CN87	6
WA9BTV	9,324	WWA	SOHP	ABCD9E	162	216	42	0	CN88	8
K7YO	8,586	OR	SOLP	ABCDE	70	131	158	53	CN85	8
N7QOZ	6,920	WWA	SO3B	ABD	136	173	40	0	CN87	8
N7KSI	6,273	WWA	SOHP	ABCDE	91	124	51	0	CN86	10
K7BWH	4,420	WWA	SOLP	A	85	85	52	0	CN87	5
KG7PD	4,368	WWA	SO3B	ABD	102	112	39	0	CN87	11
W7GLF/R	4,238	WWA	R	ABCDEIX	99	153	28	3	See notes below	6
VE7HR	3,232	BC	SOLP	ABCD9E	76	101	32	0	CN89	5
KA7RAA/R	1,560	WWA	RL	ABCD	56	65	24	4	See notes below	5
VE7AFZ/R	1,472	BC	RU	ABDI	53	64	23	3	See notes below	7
AG6QV	1,392	WWA	SOLP	ABDEIX	53	87	16	0	CN87	7
KE7MSU/R	1,357	OR	R	ABCD	54	59	23	3	See notes below	7
KB7IOG	742	WWA	SOHP	ABCDE	32	53	14	0	CN87	3
VA7RKM	627	BC	SOLP	ABDE	28	33	19	0	CN88	3
WE7X	325	WWA	SOP-ALG	A	25	26	13	0	CN97	2
AG7QH	299	OR	SOLP	AB	23	23	13	0	CN84	2
W7WKR	210	WWA	SOLP	A	15	15	14	0	CN98	2
K7UN	200	WWA	SOP	ABE	23	25	8	0	CN85	3
K7ATN	80	OR	SOP-ALG	BD	16	20	4	0	CN85	2
VE7VIE	64	BC	SOP	AB	8	8	1	0	CN89	1
N0CYT	12	WWA	SOP-ALG	X	35	12	1	0	CN87	1
N7FW	3	WWA	SOP-ALG	9	1	3	1	0	CN87	1

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

Category Codes:
SOLP - Single Operator Low Power,    SOHP - Single Operator High Power,    SO3B - Single Operator 3 Band SO-ALG-LP - Single Operator Low Power Analog,    SOP-ALG - Single Operator Portable Analog SOP - Single Operator Portable    R - Rover Classic,    RL - Rover Limited,    RU - Rover Unlimited   

Band Codes:
A - 50 MHz,  B - 144 MHz,  C - 220 MHz,  D - 432 MHz,  9 - 902 MHz,  E - 1.2 GHz,  F - 2.3 GHz,  G - 3.4 GHz,  H - 5.7 GHz  I - 10 GHz,  X - 17 GHz and Above

PNWVHFS Award Winners

Certificates presented at the PNWVHFS Conference, TBD 2024

Additional Information

W7GLF/R - WWA:
Activated 3 Rover grids: CN87 CN88 CN98
Worked 6 PNW grids: CN84 CN87 CN88 CN89 CN97 CN98

KE7MSU/R - OR:
Activated 3 Rover grids: CN84 CN85 CN86
Worked PNW 7 grids: CN84 CN85 CN86 CN87 CN89 CN94 CN98

VE7AFZ/R - BC:
Activated 3 Rover grids: CO80 CN89 CN99
Worked PNW 7 grids: CN73 CN79 CN86 CN87 CN88 CN89 CO70

KA7RRA/R - WWA:
Activated 4 Rover grids:  CN87 CN88 CN96 CN98
Worked 5 PNW grids:  CN87 CN88 CN89 CN96 CN97

Thanks to Barry, K7BWH for letting me know about the contest.

I had fun during the contest except for when I was going west on I-90 and my antenna mast went east on me.

I started the contest in Dryden and headed south on 97 to Ellensberg. When I got to Ellensberg I had to pull over and take the antenna down, because the mast was bending on me and that happened during a 6 meter opening! I wasn't real happy about that.

Then I went to Green Mountain and found out I was getting RF feedback into the radio on 6 meters. I went and saw Eric, KB7DQH and we got everything fixed and he told me that there might have been a busted ground on the mike itself, but I got it working again. So much fun.

AL1VE/R - OK & KS:
Activated 8 Rover grids:  EM06 EM08 EM09 DM88 DM89 DM96 DM97 DM99
Worked 11 PNW grids:  CN84 CN85 CN87 CN88 CN94 CN95 DN13 DN17 DN18 DN26 CO70

My original plan for the contest was to rove only in Kansas, I saw on Slack that Hal, N7NW was hoping someone would activate EM06 in north-central Oklahoma, for one of his last needed FFMA grids. I was only 200 miles away and I thought why not! Six meter conditions weren't the best Saturday morning, but we were able to connect.

With this last minute change in plans I decided to start my contest rove from there. The day was sunny, hot, and with poor six meter conditions and I managed to eke out about 70 contacts. I also talked to one rancher who wanted to know why I wasn't on a nearby "hill" (literally only 20' higher), talked to a game warden who wanted to know what animals I was tracking, and became the item of interest for a herd of Black Angus.

Saturday night I drove into a area of severe thunderstorms (most of Kansas!). Some of the lightning from these storms I could see from over 80 miles away. Using the App Windy I was able use the radar graphics to thread my way around the really violent areas. It was still a rough ride, which included a lightning ground strike, just fifty feet from the vehicle. For the past 14 years I've roved through the Midwest during the June VHF contest and these were the biggest and most concentrated storms I had encountered.

Sunday morning in central Kansas started with light rain, poor band conditions and an afternoon forecast of more T-storms. Looking for an area with the least chance of storms I decided to drive two hours west to a grid corner a few miles east of the CO/KS border. It was a location I've visited several times before. Once there, after reconnecting all the gear and getting an antenna up (during electrical storms I disconnect everything and don't travel with any antennas up) I found six meters wide open and full stations on SSB! Over the next 7 hours I worked nearly 500 stations from every corner of the country. It had been over 11 years since I had experienced Six meters with that good band conditions.

Can it get better even next year during the sunspot peak?

Any takers for a pack rove in Kansas next June?

K5QE - STX:
Operators: K5QE, K5SAB, KF5LKG, KV5W, N5YA, N5KDA, W5KDA

Contest was pretty tough on us this time. Again, hundreds of guys banging away on FT8 when 6M was wide open on SSB.

We don’t think we had a very good contest, propagation was poor, but we did a lot of good work on moonbounce. That’s where a lot of our multipliers and score comes from: working in Europe on Moon Bounce.

73’s to everyone in the Pacific Northwest. Marshall.

VE7DAY - BC:
Busiest contest in many years,hectic at times and I really enjoyed it.

KX7L - OR:
Six meters was open at the starting bell, and as far as I could tell stayed open until the contest ended. I was up until 11 pm on Saturday night and the E-skip was still coming in. Got up Sunday and went into the shack and they were still coming in. An especially nice end to the contest with multi-hop to the East Coast. Wow. As Wally Shawn would say: "Inconceivable!"

Surpassed my previous best score from 2012 (11 years ago, imagine that!) by quite a margin.

All the propagation led to more mode diversity: although most of my QSOs were on FT8, I also made quite a few on CW, SSB and even FT4. Unfortunately activity on 2m suffered...

Thanks for all the Q's and new grids!

KB7IOG - WWA:
Thanks for all the contacts and effort by all. The 2m opening from CN87 to DM24 and DM43, was especially rare fun. 73's

K7UN - WWA:
Portable near Davis Peak, SW Wash. In the clouds most of the time. Cold and windy. 3 hrs of operation.

AG7QH - OR:
Just sporadic participation this year from me.

N6ZE/7 - WWA:
I operated outdoors for the entire contest in the great PNW from my deck overlooking the Puget Sound and the Cascade Mountains. There were no rain showers until the last hour of the contest. Getting to operate from the home PNWVHFS territory was great.

There was a good bit of VE7 activity from CN88 and CN89, but did not even hear Portland, OR (CN85) until the last 15 minutes of the contest.

It was nice to work W7MEM (DN17) located on the East side of the Cascades. I elected to be a Low Power Analog Entry, which turned out to be quite favorable. There was an extremely high noise level part of the time, but I managed a double-hop E-skip QSO with N4SVC (EM80) in Florida.

My portable station included a FT-991, 3-element 6-meter "Hilltopper Yagi", 7-element Cushcraft 2 meter yagi, and an 11-element M² 70-cm yagi.

W7TZ - OR:
Unbelievable weekend! Often, more decodes per cycle of FT8 than total contacts per contest in the last ten years.