Activate a County 2026

Salmon Run 2026 runs from 1600Z (9AM PDT) Saturday, September 19 – 2359Z (5PM PDT) Sunday, September 20 with a break overnight. See the rules for more details.

Activate a County 2026 is live! Whether you’re fixed, mobile, or on an expedition like Lewis and Clark, please enter your activation details here. Especially fixed stations, please enter your information early, as this helps rovers to plan their travels to provide everyone the opportunity for a clean sweep.  This year’s activation form is similar to last year’s where we’ve formatted the data a little differently to enable you to enter and update your form responses. Below is a map and list of all responses. If you need to change your response, look in your email for a message titled “2026 Salmon Run County Activation” and click the “edit response” button at the top of the email. The map below takes around 15 minutes to update after you’ve entered or edited your activation.

During the contest, if you’re hunting for a specific county you can use the larger dashboard with more filtering options here.

A final tool that we’ve created to assist county-line activators and portable is an interactive map of Washington Counties on top of a satellite base layer. Note that the county lines on this map aren’t ‘official’ – but for most cases they are pretty close. Please consult the MARAC rules prior to your final location choice for determining the official county line locations for purpose of the QSO Party and county hunting.

2025 Results are In

Thanks to all the participants in the 2025 Salmon Run. Please check out the results page.  Awards are in the process of being mailed. Certificates for 2025 are coming, but aren’t quite ready yet. Check back here for an updated link when certificates are ready!

On behalf of the WWDXC Salmon Run committee, thanks to all of the operators that participated and we look forward to hearing you all next year!

2025 Log Submission

Logs are due by 2359Z Sunday October 5th – 4:59PM PDT Sunday October 5th.

That’s it for the 2025 Salmon Run! The space weather managed to push the SFI back up to last year’s levels with great propagation conditions both locally, across the country, and bringing in a lot of DX for those turning their antennas outside of the state.  Having 10m open for most of the contest provided a lot of Qs, and a great time was had by new and seasoned Salmon alike.

Thanks to all the stations that participated in roving, running, fishing, chasing, and handing out big bonus points in the 2025 Salmon Run.  Don’t forget to submit your logs to be eligible for smoked salmon awards, plaques, and certificates, and clean sweep glasses.

Once you’ve measured your salmon and weighed them twice, please submit your logs here using the online form.  The server will validate your logs and let you know if there are any issues to prevent your submission.  Per the rules, logs submitted by other way cannot be accepted.  All entrants must submit their own logs via the submission form, but if you’re running into problems please email the salmon run committee and we’ll help you the best we can.

If you have a log that wasn’t created from a logging program that outputs Cabrillo V3 (transcribing from a paper log, logging with excel, sorting SR out from your other QSO party logs, etc.) we suggest using the form at http://b4h.net/cabforms/waqp_cab3.php to create your log. At the end of the creation process, it will send you to the submission form for a final check, and allow you to submit your log.

If you need to re-submit your log for any reason, just correct the error and re-submit through the same process.  Only the most recent log received for any given callsign will be scored.

The deadline for log submission is 2 weeks after the close of the contest, or 2359Z on October 5 (5PM PDT Sunday Oct 5, 2024).  Logs submitted late will automatically be marked as checklogs.

2025 Plaque Sponsors

We also want to highlight our 2025 Plaques, and thank their sponsors:

Top Score, WA High Power – SCARC Stanwood Camano Amateur Radio Club
Top Score, WA Low Power – Rob, N7QT
Top Score, WA Mobile –Snohomish County Hams Club
Top Score, WA Multiple County Expedition – Kirk, N7UK
Top Score, WA Single County Expedition – Boeing Employees Amateur Radio Society (BEARS)
Top Score, Eastern WA Single Operator Low Power – Spokane DX Association
Top Score, Out-of-State High Power – Rich, W6RS
Top Score, Out-of-State Low Power – RASC Radio Amateurs of Skagit County
Top Score, DX – Clark County ARC
1st non-WA Station to work all 39 counties  – Mike & Key Club

2025 Salmon Run Sweeps Glasses Sponsorships

Thanks to the great conditions and your participation, we will have a record number of clean sweeps this year. To this end, we expect the cost of sweeps glasses to exceed $1,000 again this year.  WWDXC is hoping to partner with YOU to help cover the cost of providing these glasses to stations earning a verified clean sweep. Please consider sponsoring one or more glasses today, by filling out this form.

Activate a County 2025

Salmon Run 2025 runs from 1600Z (9AM PDT) Saturday, September 20 – 2359Z (5PM PDT) Sunday, September 21 with a break overnight. See the rules for more details.

Activate a County 2025 is live! Whether you’re fixed, mobile, or on an expedition like Lewis and Clark, please enter your activation details here. Especially fixed stations, please enter your information early, as this helps rovers to plan their travels to provide everyone the opportunity for a clean sweep.  This year’s activation form is similar to last year’s where we’ve formatted the data a little differently to enable you to enter and update your form responses. Below is a map and list of all responses. If you need to change your response, look in your email for a message titled “2025 Salmon Run County Activation” and click the “edit response” button at the top of the email. The map below takes around 15 minutes to update after you’ve entered or edited your activation.

During the contest, if you’re hunting for a specific county you can use the larger dashboard with more filtering options here.

A final tool that we’ve created to assist county-line activators and portable is an interactive map of Washington Counties on top of a satellite base layer. Note that the county lines on this map aren’t ‘official’ – but for most cases they are pretty close. Please consult the MARAC rules prior to your final location choice for determining the official county line locations for purpose of the QSO Party and county hunting.

To aid in activation planning, browse the interactive map below to see the claimed QSO counts summed up from each county from 2020-2023. Use the dropdown to update the map coloring by mode, and select individual or multiple counties by clicking on the map, clicking on the county name in the table, or CTRL-Clicking the county names in the table to focus on multiple counties.