Went up to Mt Umunhum (W6/CC-052) south of San Jose for about an hour
of operating. Beautiful day to sit on the summit, not a huge amount of
activity.

6m dipole, up 3 meters, oriented N-S

Very little joy on 6m!

Entry is under: Single Operator Portable Analog Only

Slow contest. Rovers made my day.

Pretty poor propagation this go round! Looking at PSK Reporter there was a small strip of activity
west of the Cascade Mountains in Washington and Oregon and then east of the Mississippi River. 
Things have been tough before but not this tough!

I got my first 2m and 70cm SSB/DG QSOs during this contest!
Operated for about 11.5 hours on 6m, 2m, and 70cm and
had a great time.  Many thanks to the contest organizers
and all who participated!

First time logging participation in a contest!

It was fun working WB2AMU using different antenna and radio setups.

Very poor conditions.  Missed nearly all of Sunday. See you in January.

Good contest for this weekend; worked it from a local park at a elevated position Having 6M in the
kit was a help where I got to use both diigital modes and SSB which was a bonus in the log as I was
packing up to leave the park. I look forward to doing this type of event next year. Thanks to
everyone that worked me . See you next year,73

Best QRB is 5079km for J88IH at FK93

A tough contest with not much propagation. No Es on 6, and
thunderstorms put a damper on tropo. Highlight was meteor scatter on 6
Meters Sunday morning. Logged AI5D, N0AN, and KB0V with 10
watts!

FYI, there is 3 ARRL VHF contest each year. I have operated every one since 1974.

2026 ARRL September VHF Contest.

had fun,good activity

FT8 operation from grid FM18.
20 QSOs logged on 144 MHz; 18 creditable after 2 same-band duplicates.
2 QSOs logged on 432 MHz.

September ARRL VHF Contest

Very low activity here in NE Ohio. No CW or SSB stations heard. All contacts were FT8.

Thanks for all the QSOs. This was my first VHF contest and likely won't be the last. 73 to all!

bad conditions

Spent 99% of my 3 somethng hours calling CQ. Very few locals down here
do VHF contesting. And when 6m is dead so is the contest. Glad I only
wasted 3 hours of my time in the chair, although I did leave the volume
turned up on the 6m rig on 50.125, and 2m rig on 146.52 in case I heard
any activity emitting from the shack while I was in the house. Just heard
a lot of static. 6m rig K3S 100 watts to 3 elements at 18'AGL. 2M/70cm
rig Yaesu FT-897D 50 watts on 2M 20 watts on 70CM to a Comet GP-1 at
18'AGL. 73, Gene N9TF

All QSOs via EME

I did not have a lot of time a busy weekend Saturday was our
Clubs Hamfest. I got an vintage IC-03AT I got 1 qso.

September 2026 ARRL VHF QSO Party

Poor condtions

A stuck antenna rotor & limited hours handicapped me, bu tnot bad under the circumstances.

I was expecting challenging conditions for this year's event for
several reasons.  We had a few of our active VHF contest operators in
the area become silent keys during the past year, including Glen,
WB2JAY.  In addition, it was the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, which
impacted attendance by some of our active operators in the area (The
ARRL should be more cognizant of this holiday and try to adjust the
date, if possible).  Then I had an evening wedding to attend that was
an hour away in Eastern Long Island, so I could only do 35 minutes of
operating on Saturday.   I was hoping for some tropo conditions but
bands were pretty poor on both days.  On Sunday, there were tremendous
rain storms which made QRP portable operating very challenging and
there were not many stations to work at all.  I did get to try out
some different antennas on the four bands when SWR conditions affected
the usual antenna setups that I had.  Thanks to Mitch, KE2CCG, for
working me on three bands.  Another highlight was working Pat, NS4T, who was visiting Long Island,
his old home grounds from the state of Georgia.  I had worked Pat when he was in Georgia during the
June VHF contest calling his SSB signal using CW during marginal conditions.  Some serious
restructuring should be considered for this event and the January event to encourage more CW
and phone activity, and possibly shortening the time period to really
reflect the actual number of participants!