Partially because of this thread, I got on 6M a bit Saturday when there was an obvious 10M opening.
While most of my qso's since 2002 have been CW, I had yet to make a 6M CW qso. Instead I had just used SSB and FM. But in the opening Saturday, I found out a few things. 1) I was frustrated at how slow the chats were on SSB (FM was even worse) - it seemed like they were wasting a perfectly good band opening ragchewing. I don't mind ragchewing and will do a bit of it myself, but usually on 30, 40, or 80. 2) When I turned down to the CW portion of the band, it almost sounded like a CW contest weekend. Very efficent operating and the band was FULL of signals. The receiver I had been using for 6M was not really up to this. I eventually dug out the TT 1208 and attached it to my K2. MUCH better for me, even if less power going out. Ken McGuire KC8LTL en72 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/6-meters-Newbie-tp5244084p5256508.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
