Well, another contest, another VHF antenna.  This time around it was a new 10 element 2m WA5VJB Cheap Yagi on a PVC boom, to replace the wooden boom edition that was demolished by the rainy winter. A nagging suspicion about the lack of 6m stations heard got me to digging out the MFJ 259 and sure enough, feedline problems - a bad connector let water into the coax and shorted it.  So *naturally* I was out of PL-259s.  After a quick jaunt to Radio Shack and a few minutes with the utility knife and MAPP gas torch (MUCH quicker than even the hulking 300W Weller gun) I was back in business.

There was a fair amount of 6m activity early on for me, the usual mix of midwest and northeast stations, but things petered out and pretty soon there was a whole lot of nothing.  I only made 2 2m contacts and no 70cm contacts this time around.  I was expecting better of June!  Maybe September'll be better.  Hopefully I'll have the second 70cm beam up, and maybe a second 2m beam as well, by then.