Here is the N1MM score summary for my time in the VHF contest: Band QSOs Pts Grid

I am interested to see how the other club members I worked made out. Though I had planned a little VHF work on Sunday and then it seemed like I might not be able to, I ended up very pleasantly surprised with what I was able to do. I worked 2 other ops on all 3 bands and a few on 2 bands. I was able to work the op of the house I was going to head over to on 6m, 2m and 70cm. I heard a station in the Midwest and in Florida on 6m but they couldnвЂ™t hear me and were gone quickly.ДЄs I am familiar with many ops and their call signs I work in HF contests, from operating a few VHF contests since IвЂ™ve been licensed I am familiar with the local VHF вЂbig gunsвЂ™ and I worked a bunch I had worked in previous VHF contests when operating under our club call of K2BAR. I even called CQ on 6m for a short while and got a few ops that came back to me. Over the next few hours I worked stations on and off on 6m and 2m SSB. But in the end I worked 3 ops on 70cm SSB. We then try 430 and though ops have no problem hearing me, even the strongest ops are weak for me to hear. I am able to run 100w on 144 but 50w max on 430. So for the 1st time ever I tune my Kenwood TS-2000 to 144 SSB and make a contact. VHF contests sees comparably less activity then a HF contest as it is typically local contacts so there is plenty of room on the bands. In this contest the op will typically ask if you have other bands and then switch to an open frequency on that other band. I tuned around 6m a bit and made a couple more contacts. I then switched to 6m SSB and worked the same op I just worked on FM. I was trying to contact the op of the house I was going to go to but he wasnвЂ™t responding on that frequency. It is certainly not a VHF superstation! So I got on 146.580 FM and made a contact with a local operator.

My вЂantenna farmвЂ™ consists of a dual band vertical I use for FM repeaters and a G5RV wire antenna. By the time I would have been able to head out it was after 3PM so I figured instead I would just get on and hand out a few FM contacts to nearby ops. I was out on Sat afternoon and evening but thought on Sunday I would head over to our unofficial VHF club station at one of the ops houses for some VHF contesting. It does not store any personal data.On Saturday morning I participated in the BARTG RTTY Sprint.

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