CQ World Wide VHF Contest
CQ World Wide VHF Contest
| Call | Category | Comments | VA3OGG/R | Rover | ROOKIE - First licensed in Oct 2019 | VA7OTC/R | Rover | Glad I got out. After a fun run of locals from a favourite high point in the Victoria area, I drove north to Mt. Prevost. Amazing elevated horizon. Though 50 MHz was but a dipole atop the drive-on mast, in the late afternoon / early evening we had an opening to California. My first time to work such distant grid squares. Sunday was almost a bust, however one operator was on from Vancouver & that netted me not only contacts on each band, it also gave me the chance to actually operate from another grid, as a Rover. whew | VE2BAP | Single Op All | I operated from a mountain top at 520 meters (1710 feet) of elevation, with this equipment: 50 MHz: 100 watts, 2-element homemade HB9CV horizontal antenna 144 MHz: 50 watts, 5 element horizontal yagi antenna It was my first experience from this site, and I really enjoyed! I am planning to participate to September VHF contest from this site, with a better setup. Daniel VE2BAP | VE2OTA | Single Op All | First WW VHF for me | VE3CYX | Single Op All | First licence April 2021 | VE3ETE | Single Op All | Manitoulin ARC | VE3IQZ | Single Op All | I set up in a great (1200 high foot hill) location where I could see for miles, unobstructed. Started calling CQ on 6 and 2 at 1800z. The first contact, on 50.149 MHz, was 21 minutes into the contest. My second and only station contacted on 144.200 MHz at 1847z was a local and I was his first 2 metre contact. Scanning the bands soon explained why the bands were empty, all the activity was located on the FT8 digital frequencies on 6 and 2. After 2 hours and only 4 stations in the log, I quit. In my 40 years of VHF and UHF contesting,Ft8 this is the worst results, ever, for the effort put into any contest. FT8 and digital has killed SSB and CW VHF activity. Eliminate the digital computer modes and get back to REAL RADIO and REAL people doing the work before we have our frequencies taken away by commercial interests due to our lack of use. Amateur Radio Signal Searching Electronic Software, ARSSES, is killing REAL VHF Amateur Radio | VE3LDE/R | Rover | ROOKIE/first licence 11/2020 | VE3LFS | Single Op All | All FT8 contacts | VE3NRT | Single Op All | Fun to work some new ones | W0ETT/R | Rover | On trip home, I operated for hours as 6m rover across Wyoming (north to south in DN64, DN74, DN73, DN63, DN62, DN72, DN71) and made only 8 contacts six of which were in Texas. Crossed into CO and made 3 more. So, guess the dearth of Sporadic Es was payback for having too much fun in the ARRL June VHF test. - Its time to pick another date for the CQ WW VHF test - how about the week after the ARRL vhf test? W0ETT/Rover | W0RIC | Single Op 6M | Better conditions in 2022 then 2021. Thanks for all the Q's. Fun weekend | W1AKI | Single Op 6M | This was my first VHF contest operating from my own shack, vs. a few QSOs on Field Day. I had a logging problem and I might have lost a QSO before the first one reported here. Antenna was a homebrew Moxon based on that in an ARRL book by Bruce Walker, N3JO Antenna was only about 14 feet above ground | W2CS | Single Op 6M | Poor man's entry. K4D barefoot loading up a 40 meter dipole 50' high. Thanks for everyone's patience working me | W2QL | Single Op QRP | Thanks to those who heard my 5 w signal from 3 ele in spare bedroom AGL ~ 30 feet! | W3DHJ/R | Rover | Disappointing propagation Disappointing participation Risk of heat prostration Worst CQ WW VHF score by half in over 16 years | W4IU | Single Op All | Had fun but the vast majority of activity was on FT8. I already spend too much time on the computer for work. Suggest rule change to allow points for multiple modes between same contacts. I.e. 1 pt FT8 + 2 pts Ph + 3 pts for CW or some variation on that theme. It would promote activity on other modes aside from FT8... and that dangly thing on the front of the transceiver (MIC) might get some use :-) | W4NZ | Single Op All | Flex 6600m 100w to 6m EDZ at 50 ft 73, Ted W4NZ | W4VIC | Single Op 6M | Thanks for the Qs. 73, Vic W4VIC | W5UHQ | Single Op QRP | Future contests should provide more information for Using the 'WW' flag on WSJT-X which is likely the most widely used digital program for this contest. Based on my results only about 10% of stations used that special flag. Many QSOs got hung up with stations trying to use either standard FT8 exchanges or FD mode. Without those sub-modes being set many qsos get hung up from the other station waiting for a signal report. This adds to clutter on bands. Also no suggested frequencies outside of the normal FT4 or FT8 were listed resulting in over clutter on the suggested normal digital frequencies | W7EW | Single Op All | It is very bad sign that when the propagation is so bad you don't need a dupe checker | W8GJK | Single Op 6M | Casual op from Saturday evening thru Sunday | WA0LIF | Single Op All | Bands were dead | WA1LBK | Single Op All | First time operating the CQ WW VHF would like to see the higher bands (222, 432, 902, 1296, etc.) included as well | WA2FGK | Single Op 6M | Last contest after 60 years with WA2FGK. QTH will be sold | WA3EOQ | Single Op 2M | Another FT8 contest | WA5KBH | Single Op 6M | This annual 'test gives me the chance to work stations I have not had the opportunity to work since last contest! Thank you for this pleasurable event | WA5LFD | Single Op All | For CW/SSB entrants, the inclusion of digital modes skews the results to make a non- digital entry meaningless. Consider the ARRL solution by differing the entry classifications to either analog/digital. This will give us all room to compete. The contest for me has always been about weak signal operating, using many six meter prop modes. Thanks, Rich WA5LFD | WA8ZID | Single Op 6M | One new grid in the mix. Better band conditions just before start, then mostly locals | WB0IXI | Single Op 2M | I bailed out after 2 contacts. A review of the spots showed 96% of the US contacts being made by FT-8. Some of their signals were so strong that we could have easily worked on SSB. The FT-8 crowd would have gotten more contacts and done so more rapidly had they switched to voice for a while. This contest is the 'CQ VHF FT-8 Robot Contest', the dumbed down version of what it used to be. With FT-8, no human skill is required | WB4EHG | Single Op 6M | Propagation stayed with us here in So FL but it faded in & out 3 times | WB8WUA | Single Op All | I had fun. There was a good short opening path to Florida and (a lesser extent) toward MS and MN on six meters predominately using phone (ssb) mode on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, the 2 Meter band was dead, except that I had a fun ssb QSO to Ravenna. Thanks for this good contest | WR7AY | Single Op 6M | Some bad propagation | XE2NL | Multi-Op | It was a great adventure waiting for opening band | XM3A | Hilltopper | I`ve operated from the top of Mt. McLean, Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron. Elevation 360 meters above sea level, GRID EN95ax. 73, Igor XM3A, also VE3ZF | YB2ECG | Single Op All | This is my first CQ-WW-VHF contest | YC3AHD | Hilltopper | ORARI LOKAL KEDIRI ,,,KEREN, JULI 2022 | YC3PHR | Single Op QRP | JULI 2022 | YC3RJL | Single Op 2M | we are member of KEDIRI DXC TEAM YB3ZBD - CLUB STATION ORARI LOKAL KEDIRI, GOOD LUCK TO THE CONTEST, 73 de YC3RJL, juli 2022 | YD3AXD | Single Op 2M | ORARI LOKAL PACITAN | YD3BFV | Single Op QRP | ORARI LOKAL KEDIRI, 2022 | YD3DBG | Single Op 2M | CQ WW VHF Tahun 2022 | YE3DFB | Single Op All | JULI 2022 | YF3CXB | Single Op 2M | we are KEDIRI DXC TEAM | YF3GDE | Single Op QRP | JULI 2022 | YG3CMS | Single Op QRP | See you agn on next years | YL7X | Multi-Op | Two VHF rockies made their first steps on 2m band. Thunderstorms in area and poor propagation on 6m did not help much. Anyway we are happy to set Latvian Multi Op record and activate very rare square on VHF KO07 for the CQWW VHF contest. 6m - 4el @12m 100w FTDX10 2m - 6el @14m 100w TS2000 | YO3JW | Single Op 6M | TNX QSOs ! | YU5R | Single Op 6M | FLEX 6600 + 7 el YAGI @ 17m |
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