W6YX Contest Operations

W6YX Contest Coordinator:
E-mail: contesting@w6yx.stanford.edu

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

Upcoming events:


JARTS WW RTTY Contest 0000Z, Oct 17 to 2400Z, Oct 18 

(Pre-) Stew Perry Topband Challenge 1500Z, Oct 17 to 1500Z, Oct 18 

ARRL School Club Roundup 1300Z, Oct 19 to 2400Z, Oct 23 

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Oct 24 to 2400Z, Oct 25 

ARRL EME Contest 0000Z, Nov 7 to 2359Z, Nov 8 

ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW 2100Z, Nov 7 to 0300Z, Nov 9 

WAE DX Contest, RTTY 0000Z, Nov 14 to 2359Z, Nov 15 

JIDX Phone Contest 0700Z, Nov 14 to 1300Z, Nov 15 

ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB 2100Z, Nov 21 to 0300Z, Nov 23 

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Nov 28 to 2400Z, Nov 29 

ARRL 160-Meter Contest 2200Z, Dec 4 to 1600Z, Dec 6 

ARRL EME Contest 0000Z, Dec 5 to 2359Z, Dec 6 

ARRL 10-Meter Contest 0000Z, Dec 12 to 2400Z, Dec 13 

RAC Winter Contest 0000Z-2359Z, Dec 26 

Stew Perry Topband Challenge 1500Z, Dec 26 to 1500Z, Dec 27

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

Recent Contest News:

N7MH, N6CCH, K6UFO, W6RK, K6TT, AA6XV, and AF6RR joined forces for the 2009 California QSO Party from W6YX. Together, they 1,333 contacts, completing a sweep outside California and missing only one county within the State.
Read Mork's report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-10/msg00406.html.

Rebar N6CCH made 398 contacts in the September 2009 CQ WW RTTY Contest.
Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-09/msg01573.html.

Mike N7MH made 233 contacts in the September 2009 North American 4 hour CW Sprint
Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-09/msg00892.html.

KC6SXC, AF6RR, AA6XV, KG6NUB, K6PR, and AJ4EC participated in the ARRL September VHF Contest from Site 530 in CM87. They completed 191 Qs to 46 Grids on the 50 mHz, 144 mHz, 222 mHz, 432 mHz, 902 mHz, and 1296 mHz bands.

Risto W6RK, Rebar N6CCH, Phil K6TT, and Nick KZ2V combined for a multi-two entry from W6YX in the SSB weekend of the North American QSO Party on August 15, 2009, with over 1,000 contacts.
More information is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-08/msg00783.html.

Bob KC6SXC participated in the ARRL August UHF Contest from Site 530 in CM87. He completed 47 Qs to 18 Grids on the 222 mHz, 432 mHz, and 1296 mHz bands.

Tom ND2T, Mike N7MH, Phil K6TT, Mork K6UFO, and Risto W6RK put together a multi-two entry from W6YX in the CW weekend of the North American QSO Party on August 1, 2009, with 1263 contacts in 10 hours.
More information is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-08/msg00383.html.

Bob KC6SXC participated in the CQWW VHF July 2009 Contest from Site 530 in CM87. He completed 78 Qs to 24 Grids on six and two meters, including contacts to Washington, British Columbia, and Montana.

ARRL Field Day on June 27-28, 2009, was excellent! Many people participated and everyone's contribution is appreciated. Our score may be a new record in Category 4F.
See the full report at: http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2009-July/177972.html

Risto W6RK, Mike N7MH, John W6LD, and Phil K6TT put together a very competitive multi-two entry in the June 2009 North American QSO Party RTTY, completing 679 contacts and almost 108,000 points.
Risto's report can be seen at: http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2009-July/177926.html.

Five operators (Dean N6DE, Mike N7MH, Risto W6RK, John W6LD, and Nick KZ2V) participated in the CQ Worldwide WPX CW contest on May 30-31, 2009, making 2,683 contacts and scoring more than six million points in the multi-operator two-transmitter category.
Report available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-06/msg00045.html.

Dean N6DE made 245 contacts in the March 2009 North American 4 hour RTTY Sprint
Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-03/msg01285.html.

Rebar N6CCH, Risto W6RK, Tom ND2T, Mike N7MH, John W6LD, and Dean put together a very competitive multi-two entry in the February 2009 North American QSO Party RTTY, completing more than 1,000 contacts.
Dean's report can be seen at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-03/msg00168.html.

Rebar N6CCH, Mark K6OWL, Tom ND2T, Risto W6RK, John W6LD, Matt WX5S, and Dean N6DE participated in a multi-two effort in the February 2009 CQ Worldwide WPX RTTY contest making 2,417 contacts with 587 different prefixes.
Dean's write-up is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-02/msg00860.html.

Mork K6UFO, Tom ND2T, Rebar N6CCH, Mike N7MH, and John W6LD collaborated in a multi-two entry from W6YX in the SSB weekend of the North American QSO Party on January 17, 2009, with almost 1,600 spread across six bands.
More information is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-01/msg01080.html.

Mork K6UFO, Tom ND2T, Mike N7MH, JOhn W6LD, and Risto W6RK joined forces in a multi-two entry from W6YX in the CW weekend of the North American QSO Party on January 10, 2009, with almost 1,700 contacts in 12 hours.
Mike filed a 3830 report available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-01/msg00853.html.

W6YX was the site for two multi-operator/single-transmitter teams in the 2008 ARRL RTTY Roundup: (1) Mork K6UFO, Mike N7MH, and Risto W6RK made 1,524 QSOs with 100 multipliers for a score of 152,400 using the W6YX call; and (2) Tom ND2T and Mark K6OWL logged 1,179 contacts to 79 multipliers to score 93,141 points as ND2T.
Read the full reports at:

W6YX - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-01/msg00270.html and

ND2T - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2009-01/msg00194.html.

Reports from older contests are available here.

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