W6YX Contest Operations

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

W6YX HF contest results compiled by N6DB are available here.

Upcoming events:


North American Sprint, RTTY 0000Z-0400Z, Oct 13 
ARRL School Club Roundup 1300Z, Oct 21 to 2359Z, Oct 25 
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Oct 26 to 2400Z, Oct 27 
ARRL EME Contest 0000Z, Oct 26 to 2359Z, Oct 27 
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW 2100Z, Nov 2 to 0300Z, Nov 4 
WAE DX Contest, RTTY 0000Z, Nov 9 to 2359Z, Nov 10 
JIDX Phone Contest 0700Z, Nov 9 to 1300Z, Nov 10 
ARRL EME Contest 0000Z, Nov 16 to 2359Z, Nov 17 
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB 2100Z, Nov 16 to 0300Z, Nov 18 
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Nov 23 to 2400Z, Nov 24 
ARRL 160-Meter Contest 2200Z, Dec 6 to 1600Z, Dec 8 
ARRL 10-Meter Contest 0000Z, Dec 14 to 2400Z, Dec 15 
ARRL Rookie Roundup, CW 1800Z-2359Z, Dec 22 
RAC Winter Contest 0000Z-2359Z, Dec 28 
Stew Perry Topband Challenge 1500Z, Dec 28 to 1500Z, Dec 29
Contact contesting@w6yx.stanford.edu if you are interested in participating in any of these events.

Recent Contest News:

N7MH W6LD K6MM ND2T K2YY KZ2V K6UFO W6RK NF1R K6SF and N6DE operated in the California QSO Party on October 5-6, 2013, completing over 3,200 phone QSOs and 2,300 CW contacts in the multi-multi school category.
Dean's report can be read at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-10/msg00465.html.

Mike N7MH made 317 contacts in the September 2013 North American 4 hour CW Sprint.
Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-09/msg00353.html.

N6DB, K6MP, K6UFO, NF1R, and AA6XV participated in the North American QSO Party SSB on Saturday, August 17, 2013. Mork's summary is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-08/msg01433.html.

K6UFO, NF1R, K6SF, KZ2V, K6XM, and AA6XV provided a big turnout for the North American QSO Party CW on Saturday, August 3, 2013. Mork's writeup is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-08/msg00393.html.

K6UFO, N6DB, W6LD, ND2T, W6RK, and KZ2V participated in the summer edition of the North American QSO Party RTTY on Saturday, July 20, 2013. Mork's is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-07/msg01269.html.

K6UFO, N7MH, NF1R, KZ2V, W6RK, ND2T, K6SF, and N6DB participated in the CQ Worldwide WPX CW contest on May 25-26, 2013, using the ND2T call making almost 2,800 contacts and scoring over six million points in the high power multi-operator two-transmitter category.
Tom's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-05/msg01806.html.

Mike N7MH made 220 contacts in the March 2013 North American 4 hour SSB Sprint.
Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-03/msg01460.html.

Mork K6UFO made 156 QRP contacts in the March 2013 North American 4 hour RTTY Sprint.
Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-03/msg00940.html.

W6RK, N7MH, K6SF, AA6XV, NF1R, and ND2T submitted a multi-single high-power entry in the ARRL International DX - CW contest held on March 2-3, 2013. In 37 hours, they achieved over 2,000 QSOS, 2.6 million points and 427 mults. Risto's report of the weekend's activities can be read at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-03/msg00787.html.

K6UFO, ND2T, N6DB, N7MH, W6NEV, KZ2V, and W6RK exceeded the previous record in a highly competitive running of the North American QSO Party RTTY on Saturday, February 23, 2013. Mork's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-02/msg02813.html.

Mike N7MH made 342 contacts in the February 2013 North American 4 hour CW Sprint.
Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-02/msg00198.html.

W6YX participated in both the CW and SSB weekends of the North American QSO Party in January 2013. Reports of its operations can be found at: CW - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-01/msg01142.html and SSB - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-01/msg01687.html.

The Stanford Amateur Radio Club ran three simultaneous multi-single operations during the January 2013 ARRL RTTY Roundup.
  • W6NEV, W6RK, K6YL, and K6UFO operated under the W6YX call sign. Their report can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-01/msg00483.html.
  • KZ2V, N6DQ, and ND2T operated under the ND2T call sign. Their report can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-01/msg00531.html.
  • N6DB operated under the N6DB call sign. Rebar's report can be read at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2013-01/msg00518.html.

    ND2T and K6UFO participated in the second 10 Meter RTTY Contest, making 269 QSOs in eleven hours.
    Mork's report on the contest is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-12/msg00557.html.

    Mike N7MH put W6YX on the air for the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, making 877 CW and 1,092 SSB QSOs in twenty-seven hours.
    His report on the contest is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-12/msg01703.html.

    NF1R, K2YY, KZ2V, ND2T, K6SF, W6RK, N7MH, and K9YC participated in the CQ WW DX Contest, CW, November 24 and 25, 2012. The team scored almost 6.5 million points with 3,253 contacts with over 500 countries.
    Mike's report can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-11/msg03306.html.

    W6YX was represented in the 2012 ARRL November Sweepstakes by NF1R, KZ2V, K6SF, KG6NUB, and N7MH who participated in the school category on the SSB weekend and N7MH who participated in the CW weekend as a single operator.
  • Mike's reports on the W6YX operations are available at: SSB - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-11/msg01844.html and CW - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-11/msg00456.html.

    N7MH participated in the CQ WW DX Contest, SSB, October 27 and 28, 2012, in the single operator all band category. Mike scored over 2.8 million points with 2,178 contacts with 337 countries.
    Mike's report can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-10/msg02744.html.

    ND2T K2YY N7MH KZ2V W6RK KG6O KB0VVT K6SF KG0US and KG6NUB operated in the California QSO Party on October 6-7, 2011, completing over 1,500 phone QSOs and 2,300 CW contacts in the multi-multi school category.
    Risto's report can be read at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-10/msg00674.html.

    Mike N7MH made 307 contacts in the September 2012 North American 4 hour CW Sprint.
    Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-09/msg00630.html.

    K6UFO, KB0VVT, KG0US, and KG0UT made 1,241 QSOs in the August 2012 NAQP SSB contest in the M/2 category.
    Read Mork's report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-08/msg01256.html.

    N7MH broke the 1,000 QSO barrier single-handedly in the August 2012 NAQP CW contest.
    Mike's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-08/msg00388.html.

    K6UFO, ND2T, N6DQ, N7MH, W6LD, K6YL, and KZ2V broke 1,000 QSOs in the July 2012 NAQP RTTY contest. With five people participating throughout the contest, spotting stations and running the radios, the team scored its highest July RTTY contest score ever in the M/2 category.
    Read Mork's report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-07/msg01269.html.

    K6UFO participated as a single operator QRP entrant in the IARU HF World Championship on July 14-15-, 2012, making over 300 QSOs worldwide with the power turned down to just a few watts.
    Mork's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-07/msg00712.html.

    AA6XV, K6UFO, N7MH, ND2T, NF1R, and W6RK participated in the CQ Worldwide WPX CW contest on May 26-27, 2012, making more than 2,500 contacts and scoring over six million points in the high power multi-operator two-transmitter category.
    Tom's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-05/msg01505.html.

    Mork K6UFO made 141 QRP CW and 70 QRP SSB contacts in 11 hours from W6YX despite poor conditions in the Russian DX contest on March 17-18, 2012.
    See his report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-03/msg01300.html.

    Mork K6UFO made 120 QRP RTTY contacts in four hours from W6YX in the final installment of this spring's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2012.
    See his report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-03/msg01254.html.

    K6UFO, N7MH, and NF1R submitted a multi-single low-power entry in the ARRL International DX - SSB contest held on March 3-4, 2012. In 22 hours, they achieved over 700 QSOS, 500,000 points and 108 DXCC entities. Mork's report of the weekend's activities can be read at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-03/msg00350.html.

    K6UFO, N6DE, N7MH, and KZ2V came close to beating the record again in this running of the North American QSO Party RTTY on Saturday, February 25, 2012. Mork's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-02/msg02743.html.

    K6UFO and W6RK covered the ARRL International DX CW contest on February 18-19, 2012 with a multi-single low power entry. Mork's report can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-02/msg01950.html.

    N6DE, W6RK, W6LD, N7MH, and ND2T participated in the February 2012 CQ Worldwide WPX RTTY contest submitting a multi-two entry using the ND2T call showing 1,894 contacts with 680 different prefixes.
    Tom's write-up is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-02/msg00213.html.

    Mike N7MH made 317 contacts in the February 2012 North American 4 hour CW Sprint.
    Read his report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-02/msg00213.html.

    K6UFO handled both the CW weekend of the North American QSO Party on January 14, 2012, and the SSB weekend on January 21, 2012 in the single-op QRP category. Reports of his operations can be found at: CW - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-01/msg01042.html and SSB - http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-01/msg01486.html.

    The Stanford Amateur Radio Club ran three simultaneous multi-single operations during the January 2012 ARRL RTTY Roundup.
  • K6UFO, N7MH, and KZ2V operated under the W6YX call sign. Their report can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-01/msg00447.html.
  • ND2T, W6RK, N6DE, and W6NEV operated under the ND2T call sign. Their report can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-01/msg00459.html.
  • N6DB operated under the N6DB call sign. Rebar's report can be read at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2012-01/msg00296.html.

    W6RK K6UFO N7MH NF1R ND2T KZ2V N6DE participated in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, on December 10 and 11, 2011. They made almost 2,500 contacts, mostly on CW.
    Risto's report can be read at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2011-12/msg01927.html.

    Reports from older contests are available here.


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