It’s been a while since I’ve had done a VHF contest. It’s been since September of 2018 since my last VHF contest which you can read about it here.

I actually took some initiative and set up a 3 element 6m Yagi and a 3 element 2m Yagi. The 6m Yagi was mounted on a 10 foot tall mast. The 2m Yagi was mounted on my 12 foot painters pole. Neither one was extremely difficult to put up at that height.

It was a great way to get my brother involved in some VHF activities too. Neither one of us had made any 6m contacts before. Being a ham operator for almost 10 years now, I have never tried 6m. Now is the time.

The weather was less than ideal to be outside operating portable or even to be roving around. No snow, just extremely cold temperatures just barely in double digits with windchills below o°F.

My brother and I did turn in our logs to at least see how we did compared to the rest in 0 call land and in Missouri itself.

In 0 call land we did decent to our surprise. We got 14th and 15th place.

1	SO3B	K0PHP	MO	1,008
2	SO3B	K0VG	MN	868
3	SO3B	WD0BGZ	NE	744
4	SO3B	N0AT	MN	480
5	SO3B	KF0LKJ	MN	384
6	SO3B	WB0LJC	MN	294
7	SO3B	W0UC	MN	222
8	SO3B	W0VC	MN	196
9	SO3B	W0LMS	MN	186
10	SO3B	WA0VPJ	MN	112
11	SO3B	W0SEI	MN	110
12	SO3B	KB0HNN	MN	77
13	SO3B	K0DJD	MN	64
14	SO3B	W0EGT	MO	56
15	SO3B	N0RVS	MO	40
16	SO3B	KJ0P	MN	30
17	SO3B	KB0NAV	CO	24
18	SO3B	W0IZ	CO	4

In Missouri we got 2nd and 3rd place. Not too many people contesting or sending in their logs.

1	SO3B	K0PHP	MO	1,008
2	SO3B	W0EGT	MO	56
3	SO3B	N0RVS	MO	40