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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

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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