K3's on 6M
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There have been some good sporadic-E openings on 6M recently, with
some double-hop skip contacts to the east from here in Montana. Don't have a 6M antenna? Virtually anything will work when the band's "open", so try the K3's tuner on any antenna you have. I've been doing well with a 1/4 wave vertical at 30', but a 5-el NBS yagi will go up @ 75' today. (:-)) A word of caution ... if you've had a low-pass filter hidden away in your antenna system for so long that you've forgotten it ... most won't pass 6M and you could end up chasing an SWR phantom. (:-) Not familiar with 6M? Many/most SSB/CW contacts are on 50.125 USB. The CW-upon-key-closure feature is useful here. Now, if Elecraft will make the coming 6M pre-amp available soon .... (:-) 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP [hidden email] or [hidden email] _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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Good advice Ken!
I've also been enjoying the K3 on 6m mostly, both on CW and SSB. I am using a 3 element beam on a ten foot pole attached to a Vern Wright roll over mount under our pop up camper we never use, hi. So far I have been working the big guns and the little pistols with dipoles. With my setup there is very little feedline loss and I just point within 90 degrees of propagation. Since I am monitoring 24/7 when no storms are about, I usually hear something trying to break open all the time. Even in the middle of the night! Lately the good openings here in Arkansas are in the afternoon, but I am still working guys well past 0300 UTC. This morning I was hearing more stations coming through on CW, fun stuff! For the most part I missed NAQP over the weekend, just played a little with the K3 on 40m late. Just not enough hours to get it all done, hi. 73 de w5jay/jay.. > There have been some good sporadic-E openings on 6M recently, with > some double-hop skip contacts to the east from here in Montana. > > Don't have a 6M antenna? Virtually anything will work when the band's > "open", so try the K3's tuner on any antenna you have. I've been doing > well with a 1/4 wave vertical at 30', but a 5-el NBS yagi will go up @ > 75' today. (:-)) > > A word of caution ... if you've had a low-pass filter hidden away in your > antenna system for so long that you've forgotten it ... most won't pass 6M > and you could end up chasing an SWR phantom. (:-) > > Not familiar with 6M? Many/most SSB/CW contacts are on 50.125 USB. > The CW-upon-key-closure feature is useful here. > > Now, if Elecraft will make the coming 6M pre-amp available soon .... (:-) > > 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP > [hidden email] > or > [hidden email] > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [hidden email] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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In reply to this post by Ken Kopp-3
The low pass filter! Why didn't I think of that! I don't have my K3 yet but I did the 6 meter mod for my Butternut vertical and built a 3E yagi for 6 to be reay for K3 6M operation and was wondering why I had to plug the coax straight to the IC-706 bypassing my antenna switch and tuner to get a decent SWR.. The low pass filter is history - I had fogotten the thing was there attached to the back of the shack desk.
Bill NZ0T
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