aa8ta.oh
DID NOT HEAR VERY MANY STATIONS AND EVEN FEWER WERE ABLE TO HEAR ME.
ad7bf.kitt
OPERATED PORTABLE ON SOLAR AND BATTERY POWER IN HILLS ABOUT 6.5 MILES SSW OF ELLENSBURG
ai5sf.ok
ROUGH CONDITIONS THIS YEAR
ja1yne.dx
I ENJOYED VERY MUCH. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR.
k1lok.ut
FOR A FEW OF THE CALLS, I DID NOT WRITE DOWN THE RST I SENT. I STILL WANT THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON TO RECEIVE CREDIT. I DIDN’T KNOW THE RULES WHEN I STARTED.
k3tw.fl
THANKS FOR ANOTHER ENJOYABLE SALMON RUN.
k7gyb.skag
STANDARD USPS TWO-LETTER IDENTIFIER USED FOR STATES OTHER THAN WASHINGTON STATE COUNTIES. ENTRY FOR STATION WW7D SHOWS 2 COUNTIES AS HE SAID HE WAS ON THE “COUNTY LINE”. THE LAST ENTRY WAS A SOTA ACTIVATION AS WELL! FUN CONTEST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK. BEST WISHES, K7GYB
k7rmz.exp
MY FIRST EXPEDITION! ICOM IC7000 WITH 120 FT FLAT-TOP WIRE DIPOLE FED WITH 50 FT WINDOW LINE AT APPROX 45 FT AND SG230 REMOTE TUNER. CAMPED ON COUNTY LINE JUST EAST OF LILLIAN MTN AND WEST OF MISSION RIDGE. 75M WAS BY FAR THE BEST BAND FOR MY WA QSOS. 20, 30, 40 GOOD OUT-OF-STATE.
kc7ye.pac
CNDX SUCKED !
ke0tt.mn
K3/10 AT 5 WATTS TO WIRE ANTENNAS. MADE Q’S FROM IOWA WHEN THERE FOR THEIR QP ON SATURDAY, AND FROM BACK HOME IN MN FOR SUNDAY. THANKS FOR THE FUN ! C U NEXT TIME, 73, DAN KE0TT
ke1l.nh
I WAS ON PIERCE ISLAND IN PORTSMOUTH NH FOR CHOWDERCON, A QRP GATHERING THAT IS CONCURRENT WITH THE QRP OPERATING EVENT QRP AFIELD. THE INTENT WAS TO WORK THAT EVENT BUT I HEARD LITTLE ACTIVITY AND ONLY MADE ONE QRP AFIELD CONTACT. BUT MEANWHILE THE SALMON RUN WAS HAPPENING SO I MOVED DOWN THE BAND A BIT AND MADE A FEW CONTACTS.
kf4qfj.va
IT WAS GOOD FUN. -73 & GOOD DXING!
kk4bz.va
POWER=80 W, GRID=FM18EU, ANTENNA=DIPOLE, EQUIPMENT=TS570S, COMMENT=ANTENNA IS G5RV AT 10 M IN TREES, THANKS FOR THE FUN!
ku7t.king
MAX IS 11, HAYDEN IS 10. THEY DID A FINE JOB IN CALLING CQ ON THE 20M BAND. THEY MADE MOST OF THE PH CONTACTS, I MADE ALL OF THE CW ONES. HOPEFULLY, WE GOT SOME FUTURE HAM OPERATORS AND CONTESTERS GROWING UP…. NAME: ANDY
kx7l.sno
I HAD OTHER ACTIVITIES GOING SATURDAY, SO DIDN’T GET STARTED UNTIL LATE IN THE AFTERNOON, BUT FOUND 20M ALREADY SHUT DOWN, AND 40M VERY NOISY. POOR CONDX PERSISTED INTO THE EVENING – I HAD TO ASK FOR REPEATS ON HALF THE STATIONS I WORKED, EVEN STRUGGLED WITH SOME IN KING COUNTY ON 80! SUNDAY ON 20M, THINGS WERE A BIT BETTER, BUT NOT MUCH. STILL HAD FUN, EVEN IF THE BIC TIME WAS SHORT. THANKS FOR THE QSO’S!
n0ax.mo
NICE TO GET ON AND WORK FRIENDS!
n7epd.pie
CONCRETE NOT QUITE READY TO STACK THE TOWER SO RAN WITH WIRE ANTENNAS. TRIED MIXED MODE TO GET ALL WA COUNTIES AND MISSED PEND. WISH K7TQ WOULD RUN 80 MORE OFTEN DURING THE DAY FOR THE LOCALS- SKIP IS TOO LONG ON 40 FOR US DURING THESE CONDITIONS. WW7D/M NEEDS TO GET A SALMON PRIZE (AT LEAST!) FOR HIS EFFORTS!!!!
om2vl.dx
BAD CONDX DURING THE CONTEST … AT THE BEGENNING NICE COPY WA STATIONS, BUT IT TAKES ONLY SHORT TIME. THANKS FOR THE QSOS … 73 LACI OM2VL
w1end.nh
RIG WAS FTDX5000 AND BUTTERNUT VERTICAL. DID A TAD BETTER THAN LAST YEAR BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
w7dra.king
WITH MY NEW HQ 129-X AND OLD ARC5 VFO AND GLOBE CHIEF 90 I DID PRETTY WELL FOR ME.
wa5swn.ks
HORRIBLE PROPAGATION THIS YEAR – WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN FOR A SALMON RUN. MANY COUNTIES AND FAMILIAR CALLS I COUNT ON EVERY YEAR WERE JUST NOT THERE. NEVER HEARD ANYTHING ON 10 OR 15 METERS, 80 WAS TOO NOISY TO WORK. THANKS TO ALL THE GOOD PATIENT WA OPERATORS WHO HELPED ME MAKE CONTACTS THROUGH THE NOISE!
wa7prc.sno
I ALMOST DECIDED TO SKIP SR AND THEN GOT A LATE START… TWICE. STILL, FUN WAS HAD.
wq6x.ca
THIS IS ANOTHER WQ6X REMOTE OPERATION FROM NX6T IN FALLBROOK. WHILE THIS EVENT WAS A LOT OF FUN, I WAS DISAPPOINTED TO NOT HEAR NEARLY 1/2 OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTIES. I WAS ALSO BUMMED TO HEAR NO ACTIVITY FROM 05:00Z TO 07:00Z. FOR SATURDAY NITE I RAN THE K3 INTO AN ACOM-2000A AMP TO RUN 375+ WATTS FOR THE NA SPRINT RTTY AND THEN THE SALMON RUN. ON SUNDAY, FOR HEAT REASONS I RAN THE K3 @ 100 WATTS TO FINISH OFF THE GIG.
BOTH DAYS OUT OF LACK OF WA STATIONS I STARTED CALLING CQ SR AND RECEIVED MANY CALLERS. THESE STATIONS SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLING CQ, NOT ME. WAKE UP FOLKS AND PLAY IN YOUR OWN QSO PARTY AND DO IT PROPERLY. LOOK FOR MY WRITEUP ON THIS GIG AT: HTTP://WQ6X.BLOGSPOT.COM
ww7d.mob
I HAD FUN WITH THIS SALMON RUN, ACTIVATING 22 COUNTIES AS A MIXED MODE MOBILE, SPLIT BETWEEN WWA COUNTIES ON SATURDAY AND EWA COUNTIES ON SUNDAY. MY ROUTE AND EQUIPMENT WERE ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE 2017 EFFORT. EQUIPMENT HELD UP AND, ASIDE FROM ONE CONSTRUCTION DETOUR ON SUNDAY, THE ROUTE WORKED OUT. THE CONTEST STARTED SATURDAY ON THE PIE/KING COUNTY LINE. BAND CONDITIONS WERE HORRIBLE ALL DAY SATURDAY. I MADE FEWER QSOS FOR THE DAY ON SATURDAY THAN I USUALLY MAKE IN THE FIRST 90 MINUTES OF THE CONTEST SITTING ON THE KING/PIERCE LINE. SPECIFICALLY, 20M WAS TOTALLY UNDERPERFORMING ALL MORNING AND SEEMED TO CLOSE EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON ON SATURDAY. 40M WAS OKAY, BUT NOT SPECTACULAR. THE BIG SURPRISE WAS 75/80M. I MADE MORE 75/80M QSOS THAN 20M AND 40M COMBINED ON SATURDAY. SPECIFICALLY, I GOT INTO THE HABIT OF CHECKING INTO THE “NET” ON
3933 USUALLY RUN BY W7BJN OR K7RLD WHENEVER I WAS ON A COUNTY LINE. THEY WERE GREAT IN LETTING ME HOLD THE FREQUENCY FOR AS LONG AS PEOPLE WOULD RESPOND TO MY CALLS. I VERY MUCH APPRECIATED THIS, BECAUSE MY TIME AT EACH COUNTY LINE STOP IS VERY LIMITED AND, FOR SEVERAL REASONS, DOING 80M WHILE IN MOTION IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN WORKING OTHER BANDS. I CHECKED 15M THROUGHOUT THE CONTEST, AND NEVER HEARD ANOTHER STATION AND GOT NO RESPONSES TO MY OCCASIONAL CQS. IT RAINED ON AND OFF THROUGHOUT SATURDAY, WITH A PARTICULARLY NASTY, BUT SHORT-LIVED DOWNPOUR AROUND 0030Z.
I FINISHED UP ON THE SKAM/CLAR LINE ON SATURDAY AT MIDNIGHT, AND THEN DROVE TO A HOTEL IN THE DALLES FOR ABOUT 5 HOURS OF SLEEP. I GOT UP EARLY FOR A 2 HOUR TRIP TO THE YAK/KLI COUNTY LINE FOR A 9AM START ON SUNDAY. WHEN I ARRIVED, THERE WAS A GREAT BIG RAINBOW TO THE WEST, BUT I HIT RAIN ALL DAY.
THE BANDS SEEMED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE SUNDAY MORNING (OR MAYBE THE DIFFERENCE WAS BEING IN E. WASHINGTON?). ACTUALLY, 20M AND 75/80M WERE GOOD ALL DAY ON SUNDAY. I TRIED AND TRIED FOR 40M QSOS, BUT ONLY GOT 5 QSOS TOTAL ON SUNDAY UNTIL THE FINAL HOUR ON THE OKA/FER COUNTY LINE, WHERE I GOT A SMALL RUN GOING FOR 14 MORE QSOS. AT MY FINAL STOP, ON THE OKA/FER LINE, SOMEONE SAW ME AND PULLED OVER. IT TURNED OUT TO BE AF6TS, WHO WAS ON HIS WAY HOME NEARBY. AFTER A BRIEF CONVERSATION, HE PARTICIPATED BY STANDING ON THE SAME COUNTY LINE WITH A HANDHELD, AND WORKED ME ON 6M AND 2M FM FOR A TOTAL OF 8 QSO! AFTER REMOVING DUPLICATES, I ENDED UP WITH 700 QSOS (322 CW AND 374 PH). THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT OVER 2017 WHEN I ONLY HAD 630 QSOS, WORSE THAN 2016 WITH 719 QSO, BUT WELL BELOW THE 972 QSOS FROM 2013 WHEN THE SUN GRACED US WITH SOMETHING RESEMBLING SERIOUS PROPAGATION. THERE WERE 186 UNIQUE CALLS IN THE LOG. MULTIPLIERS INCLUDED ALL BUT 4 WA COUNTIES (MISSED DOU, LEW, STE, AND WHI). I MISSED 10 STATES, AND ONLY WORKED TWO CANADIAN PROVINCES (AB AND ON). I WORKED A COUPLE OF JAS, BUT NO OTHER DX. THIS YEAR I DID NOT HEAR W7DX ON CW AT ALL, BUT GOT 500 POINTS FOR PHONE QSOS. MY CLAIMED SCORE, 129,950, IS A NICE IMPROVEMENT FROM LAST YEAR’S 119,440. TOP STATIONS WORKED WERE WU7H AND N7EPD (28), N6MU (25), N7IR (23), K7IDX/7
(22), KB7QPS (20), W7DK (18), N7HCJ (16), K9CW AND K7RLD (14), W7PU AND K7RMZ (12), N7PP (11), WW7LW AND W7VAS (10). I VERY MUCH APPRECIATED THE PORTABLE
OPERATIONS, PARTICULARLY THE FOLKS ON COUNTY LINES. I BELIEVE THE ONLY /M I WORKED THIS YEAR WAS WW7LW, WHO PROVIDED A GREAT SET OF RARE COUNTIES: WAL, GAR, FER, COL, AND ASO. EVEN AFTER THE SLOW START ON SATURDAY, I HAD A GREAT TIME IN THIS EDITION OF THE SALMON RUN.
ww7lw.exp
GOOD TO HEAR MORE HAMS SETTING UP IN THE RARER COUNTIES.
wx9tom.il
WORKING WITH AN ICOM IC-718 AT 100 WATTS INTO A COMET CHA-250BX VERTICAL ANTENNA MOUNTED ON MY DECK.
