W6YX Contest Operations

W6YX Contest Coordinator:
Mark "Mork" Aaker K6UFO
Tel. (408) 974-4347
E-mail: contesting@w6yx.stanford.edu

Updated W6YX HF contest results compiled by N6CCH are available here.

Upcoming events:

ARRL Inter. DX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Mar 1 to 2400Z, Mar 2
Rules available at: http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2008/intldx.html.

North American Sprint, RTTY 0000Z-0400Z, Mar 9
Rules at: http://www.ncjweb.com/sprintrules.php.

CQ WW WPX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Mar 29 to 2400Z, Mar 30
CQ WW WPX Contest, CW 0000Z, May 24 to 2400Z, May 25
Rules available at: http://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm.

JIDX CW Contest 0700Z, Apr 12 to 1300Z, Apr 13
Rules at: http://jidx.org/.

Florida QSO Party 1600Z, Apr 26 to 2159Z, Apr 27
Rules at: http://www.floridaqsoparty.org/.

ARRL June VHF QSO Party 1800Z, Jun 14 to 0300Z, Jun 16

All Asian DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Jun 21 to 2400Z, Jun 22
All Asian DX Contest, Phone 0000Z, Sep 6 to 2400Z, Sep 7

ARRL Field Day 1800Z, Jun 28 to 2100Z, Jun 29

RAC Canada Day Contest 0000Z-2359Z, Jul 1

IARU HF World Championship 1200Z, Jul 12 to 1200Z, Jul 13

CQ Worldwide VHF Contest 1800Z, Jul 19 to 2100Z, Jul 20

North American QSO Party, RTTY 1800Z, Jul 19 to 0600Z, Jul 20
North American QSO Party, CW 1800Z, Aug 2 to 0600Z, Aug 3
North American QSO Party, SSB 1800Z, Aug 16 to 0600Z, Aug 17
Rules at: http://www.ncjweb.com/naqprules.php.

ARRL UHF Contest 1800Z, Aug 2 to 1800Z, Aug 3

WAE DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Aug 9 to 2359Z, Aug 10

ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest 0600 local, Aug 16 to 2400 local, Aug 17

Contact Mork K6UFO at contesting@w6yx.stanford.edu if you are interested in participating in any of these events.

Recent Contest News:

Dean N6DE, Rebar N6CCH, Tom ND2T, Mike N7MH, John W6LD, and Curt W6RQ combined forces in the rain and wind in the RTTY weekend of the North American QSO Party on February 23, 2008, to make more than 1,000 contacts in twelve hours in a bid to regain the top award in the multi-two category.
Read Rebar's report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2008-02/msg01682.html

Seven operators (Matt WX5S, Rebar N6CCH, Tom ND2T, Risto W6RK, Dean N6DE, Dave AA6XV, and Mork K6UFO) participated in a multi-two effort in the February 2008 CQ Worldwide WPX RTTY contest making 2,272 contacts with 536 different prefixes.
Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2008-02/msg01228.html.

Mike N7MH made 308 contacts in the February 2, 2008 4 hour North American CW Sprint.
Details at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2008-02/msg00153.html.

Rebar N6CCH and Mike N7MH participated in a multi-two entry from W6YX in the SSB weekend of the North American QSO Party on January 18, 2008, with more than 1,420 contacts.
More information is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2008-01/msg01230.html.

Mike N7MH, Mark K6OWL, and Risto W6RK combined forces in a multi-two entry from W6YX in the CW weekend of the North American QSO Party on January 11, 2008, with 1,640 contacts in 12 hours, including over a hundred on ten meters.
Risto filed a 3830 report available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2008-01/msg00551.html.

W6YX was the site for two multi-operator/single-transmitter teams in the 2008 ARRL RTTY Roundup: (1) Mark K6OWL, Dean N6DE, and John W6LD made 1,561 QSOs with 95 multipliers for a score of 148,295 using the W6YX call; and (2) Rebar N6CCH and Risto W6RK logged 1,297 contacts to 93 multipliers to score 120,621 points as ND2T.
Read the full reports at:

  • W6YX - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2008-01/msg00403.html and
  • ND2T - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2008-01/msg00174.html.


    Reports from older contests are available here.



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