I spent a few hours in the CQWW-VHF Digital contest this weekend. All on six meters. Fifty-watts into a ground mounted vertical because that’s all I had readily available. I have an M2 three-element antenna for 50MHz, but it remains unopened in the box just like it arrived here three years ago. I even have an unopened rotor and controller for it. Yeah-yeah, I’ll get around to it one of these days…

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Nothing great happened for me on the Magic Band with that setup though I did manage 22 contacts spread over 18 grids. Contacts were made out to about 1250 miles. The most distant being New Mexico (DM64). One nice surprise was working Bob, K0NR in Colorado (DM78). It will be interesting to see who all confirms as I’ve nearly reached VUCC on 6 meters and a good turnout should push me over the threshold. I tried to submit my paltry results, but the ADIF to Cabrillo converter on the CQWW site didn’t work. I did post to 3830.