Aurora CW is fun on 6M. Especially when you link up to Es or F2 (not for a
few more years). Ive worked Alaska from NH on what is believed to have been
an AU link to double hop E. You should be in an excellent location for AU.
Ive worked coast to coast, South America and Europe on regular E and F skip
AM, its a blast! Im also in a CH 2 area but with 99% of the town probably on
cable Ive had no complaints at 120W on AM or 1200W on CW/SSB.
Carl
KM1H
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Howdy, Ellen!
Yeah... I know that there at least USED to be a bunch in the
Milwaukee area that kept 6 meter AM hopping, but I've never heard
them here, so I assume they're now defunct.
I've always been intrigued by 6 meters... even back when I was in
Chicago, a channel 2 area!!! I can say from personal experience that
if you fire up on 6 in Chicago, you're gonna get something like the
final scene in the movie version of Frankenstein; the villagers, all
carrying torches and pitchforks, are gonna storm the place by night,
intent on destroying the monster!!! <<GRIN>>
One of the things that I've LONG been intending to do... set up here
to work auroral DX on CW. Gathering dust is a pretty decent Heathkit
Seneca, a low band Motorola base station power amp (single 4CX250),
and an Ameco 6 meter converter (the Nuvistor version). Also, in the
rafters of the garage is a 20 foot length of 2" OD aluminum pipe from
an irrigation system (It'd make a GREAT boom for a 3 element 6 meter
Yagi!).
As it is... all I have actually working now is the Gonset hooked to
a J-pole.
Mr. T., W9LBB
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Sent: Nov 22, 2007 7:04 PM
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Anti-AM Opinionated Hams
Wish I could say the same here.
I've had a Gonset Gooney Bird sitting on 50.4 MHz for several years
now, and I've heard NADA. The radio's a paperweight with a yellow
Civil Defense paint job! ;o)
Mr. T., W9LBB
I know what you mean Tom. If we were closer, I'd help you give it a
workout. BUt I see from QRZ, you're in Sun Prairie. I'm in Greenfield,
which means we're 70 plus miles apart. Neither of us is running power
(which you need to do troposcatter on 6). I won't lie, except for a few
locals here in the Milwaukee area, who get on 6, to rag chew on SSB, when
6
is dead around here, it's about as boring as watching paint dry. Still,
6m
AM (like 10m AM) is a blast when the band is open. And you don't need
much
power then. Oh yeah, and unlike down on 50.125, you won't just get a grid
square on 50.400. Grid squares are cool. But sometimes, I want to do more
than say "Hi and good-bye."
73,
Ellen - AF9J
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