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For those of you who were sleeping or writing comments to the list here this morning, 6 meters was open in the grandest i've seen it in years. Hundreds of paths from the SE thru the NW part of the country working into Europe and even the middle east. Unfortunately it didn't get into western New Mexico, Southern half of Arizona or southern California but the rest of the country seemed to do quite well. It looked like the DC and Seattle area had to suffer with most of the concentrated activity in those two spots. I've never seen a map as heavily decorated in red lines like this one this morning. I took some pictures with my camera for forwarding to folks who won't believe it.
Yesterday my trusty K3 #763 put me in touch with ON4GG and 5J0BV so i at least wasn't left out completely! The receiver in this thing is simply great. Now to rid myself of local area noise. Larry W0OGH ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Which is why, as a resident of southern AZ, I'm finding it hard to get motivated to put up a 6-meter antenna :-(
--- On Sun, 6/20/10, Larry Godek <[hidden email]> wrote: From: Larry Godek <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] 6 meters To: [hidden email] Date: Sunday, June 20, 2010, 1:04 PM For those of you who were sleeping or writing comments to the list here this morning, 6 meters was open in the grandest i've seen it in years. Hundreds of paths from the SE thru the NW part of the country working into Europe and even the middle east. Unfortunately it didn't get into western New Mexico, Southern half of Arizona or southern California but the rest of the country seemed to do quite well. It looked like the DC and Seattle area had to suffer with most of the concentrated activity in those two spots. I've never seen a map as heavily decorated in red lines like this one this morning. I took some pictures with my camera for forwarding to folks who won't believe it. Yesterday my trusty K3 #763 put me in touch with ON4GG and 5J0BV so i at least wasn't left out completely! The receiver in this thing is simply great. Now to rid myself of local area noise. Larry W0OGH ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I was envious this morning listening to the mid-west running EU and not a
peep here in NY. My buddy in eastern PA said it was quiet for him too except for SA. N2TK, Tony -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Larry Godek Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:05 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] 6 meters For those of you who were sleeping or writing comments to the list here this morning, 6 meters was open in the grandest i've seen it in years. Hundreds of paths from the SE thru the NW part of the country working into Europe and even the middle east. Unfortunately it didn't get into western New Mexico, Southern half of Arizona or southern California but the rest of the country seemed to do quite well. It looked like the DC and Seattle area had to suffer with most of the concentrated activity in those two spots. I've never seen a map as heavily decorated in red lines like this one this morning. I took some pictures with my camera for forwarding to folks who won't believe it. Yesterday my trusty K3 #763 put me in touch with ON4GG and 5J0BV so i at least wasn't left out completely! The receiver in this thing is simply great. Now to rid myself of local area noise. Larry W0OGH ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Same here Tony. Heard DK and S5 very weakly. It was very cool to hear the
W7 stations working EU and quite the variety of callsigns too. I bet such a path is rare. We'll have our day. 73, Bob K3UL ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Hi Sam,
Welcome to 6 Meters, the 'Magic Band'. Sounds like you have found out that plenty on stations can be worked with your K3, even with antennas made for the HF bands. My K3 has been performing great during the Es (E Skip) openings the past few days. I've been running the K3 barefoot into a yagi on the deck, only 20 feet above ground since the tower isn't yet up at the new K1HTV VA QTH. In the past days my 6M grid total of over 850 grids worked on 6M has climbed by over a dozen. Single and double hop QSOs for the past two nights have produced 3 log pages of QSOs from my northern VA (FM18ap) QTH. This morning the band opened up to Europe. Starting at 1316Z I worked E7DX in Bosnia-Hertzegovina for country #149 followed by 9A5CW. At 1320Z, HA3UU became 6M country #150. Four Italian stations were also worked followed by another station in Hungary. These European DX stations were not only working the U.S. East Coast. They worked well out into the 'EM' and 'DM' grids out west. A few Italian stations worked out to the DM and CN grids today. Swedish stations worked into EM, DM & DN grids this morning. Much of the DX has been on CW but some were worked on SSB. Having the K3 sub receiver set for the CW part of the 6M band in one ear and the main receiver tuning the 6M SSB freqs worked great. After seeing a putout for an HA station in one of the countries that I still needed, I simply parked one ear on the 'B' VFO frequency reported on the DX Cluster while tuning around for other stations with the 'A' VFO. When HA3UU's signal rose above the noise level, I was ready for him. Boy, this K3 is a great radio! Just remember, the band may seem dead but can quickly come to life from one part of the world then just as quickly, the skip will change and another area is working the DX as it dies for you. Don't let it get you down. Although it will help, you don't need high power and high antennas to work plenty of DX on 6 meters. If you haven't already tried it, check out this site as an aid to chasing VHF DX with your K3: http://www.vhfdx.info/ Click on the 'DX-Sherlock 1.97' bullet to view current paths reported open on various VHF bands. Enjoy your K3 on the Magic Band. 73, Rich - K1HTV http://www.k1htv.us = = = Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:25:33 -0500 From: Sam Morgan <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 6 Meters Cc: [hidden email] Message-ID: <[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 6/19/2010 11:18 PM, David Yarnes wrote: > Bottom line--if you haven't put your toe in the water on 6 yet, do it! You > probably have an antenna that will work fine, and don't realize it. > I can testify this is true. Last night about 10:15pm cdt, I decided to see what I could hear. With my Elecraft K3 running 100w into my 7' tall Hi-Q 6/160 vertical @ 20' on the apartment building roof. http://tinyurl.com/26zd4ub I tuned the Hi-Q to ~ 11.65mhz so it would be a 5/8 on ~ 50.1mhz amazingly it tuned up with a flat 1.1:1, didn't even need the ATU there is about 50'? of RG-213 coax feeding it. Perhaps losses and the capacitance of the coax run made the match? MFJ 259B showed it as SWR= 1.2 R=38 X=0 Anyway made 2 contacts with Washinton state stations, I think I can feel the tug from that 6m bugitus hook being set... -- GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Pretty good SSSP opening to JA right now ( 23:19Z 20 June 2010)...not
for Florida, but much of the rest of the US. 73, Steve NN4X On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Bob Garrett <[hidden email]> wrote: > Same here Tony. Heard DK and S5 very weakly. It was very cool to hear the > W7 stations working EU and quite the variety of callsigns too. I bet such a > path is rare. We'll have our day. 73, Bob K3UL > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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