On January 8th the LAARA/K8GQB participated in the Ohio VHF Simplex Contest. We operated for 6 hours on 70cm, 2m & 6m. Made 103 QSO’s within 18 different counties. With the final score of 8,946 we were able to come in TOP fixed location, only coming in slightly behind the Top over all score and Rover at 10,321.