[NLRS] W9FZ report for CQWW-VHF (SSB/CW).....

[Bruce Richardson]

I dabbled in the contest by coming into the shack every few hours to see what signals were rolling in.

I heard stations working K9JK/R and K0AWU. I worked KA0PQW over in EN33 and a few Twin Cities stations on CW.

In the evening, I went to FT8 and worked a few (non-contest). I would see some really strong signals and drop down to SSB/CW frequencies and heard only a very few other stations. There were a few stations that were "in" for over an hour in the evening.  If some of the FT8 transmitters were on SSB, I know we could/would have worked.

I was running 100w to a PAR OmniAngle antenna at about 30'.  We will likely add a 2nd PAR OmniAngle that we have here (unused).

41 Total QSOs (19 CW and 22 SSB)
30 grids

1230 Total Score   Entered the 6m only category.

73
Bruce Richardson W9FZ