During the 2009 ARRL Field Day I was working from home on emergency power. I had cobbled together a 6-meter preamp for the K3 and decided to take a listen. I don't have a 6-meter antenna so I was using my paralleled wire 40-80 meter inverted V with almost 200' of RG214.
Two of the local clubs do FD from the cool pines on a 9,000+ feet ASL mountain NE of the Tucson valley. One of them was hogging 50.125 on SSB and needless to say was quite strong and quite broad. I worked a few of the louder Es stations that were coming through and then tuned down below the loudmouth and heard a weak CQ on CW. It was JL8GFB. So I called and worked him. An hour and ten minutes later, I worked JA7WSZ. So the band was open to JA for over an hour and a lot of people missed it because they were on SSB and not tuning. Wes N7WS --- On Tue, 7/6/10, Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: 6M truly is a band that allows you to have a lot of fun with a modest antenna when it's open. That's why it's called the magic band. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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
