[NLRS] CQWW VHF K0AWU EN37ed

[Bill Davis]

  I usually get on and play a bit for the CQWW VHF contest each year. Often the son and family are visiting from CA the same weekend or the following. This year I had no conflicts. This is a very good contest to work on your 6 meter numbers for the CSVHF above 50 activity. Having been away from home the first 7 days of July this year 6m states were needed more than normal.


  I am NOT a 6m fan when it comes to the ARRL VHF contests, but the CQWW VHF contest depends on 6m from the get go. 6m Es has been pretty poor up here this summer and it started that way Saturday, but around 20:00z the 6m panadapter lit up and "fish on"! The band hung on (well off/on) until 02:20z. East into New England, south east, south and a single AZ QSO to the SW late.


  No calls from the "complaining neighbor" allowed me a good effort Saturday, come Sunday the 6m Es was sadly, "history". 

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  6 meters -- 231 QSOs in 105 grids
  2 meters --  18 QSOs in  12 grids

  31,239 points
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  This was my 2nd best CQWW VHF contest ever. (The best was 2006 with 425 QSOs in 175 grids for 85,008pts) Nice to have a decent contest after so many poor contests the last couple years.


  Limited "local" activity, but some of our VHF neighbors worked include: WA0VPJ, W0AUS/R, KC0P/R, W0ANH, KB0LBS, W0GHZ, K2DRH (at 411miles Bob sounds like a neighbor), W6GMT, N0AKC, N9ISN, WB0HHM (EN13 SD), N0KKT, K9OC, K9MU, K0KP, KB0X

  As from the box score, you can see that 2m was really "hurting" from the lack of activity. W0ZQ (W0AUS/R) really helped the cause there with multiple QSOs on 2m only, while not even being detectable on 6m, CW. 

  Always fun to hear audio from VHF signals pour out of the station's speakers.

73  Bill  K0AWU