On Field Day in 2009 I took a look at 6-meters. Mind you, my antenna is a dipole, mounted inverted-vee style, with the apex at 45 feet that consists of two wires fed in parallel, one cut for 80-meters and the other for 40-meters. The RG-8 run is about 175'.
It's hot in Tucson in June so a few clubs head for the mountains near here and operate from the (relative) cool 8000-9000+ feet altitude. One of those line-of-sight stations was cluttering up 50.125 and covering up some Es stations. So I tuned a bit lower in frequency and heard a CW CQ. It was JL8GFB. I gave a call, expecting nothing and he came right back to me. He continued to call CQ for quite a while without any further takers. An hour and ten minutes later, I heard JA7WSZ calling CQ and worked him too. So the band was open to JA for over an hour and no one was paying attention. Considering the mismatch loss in the line my ERP was probably a few watts. I did have a HB receiver preamp on the K3, however. Wes N7WS --- On Sun, 3/20/11, Phil & Debbie Salas <dpsa...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > It is amazing what you can do > with just a dipole on 6-meters when the band > opens - though not sure about mounting it inside your > attic. I've been > using just a 6-meter dipole mounted on my chimney here in > the Dallas area > for probably four years now. No problem working all > over the country when > the band opens, though I have been using my K3 at 100 watts > (IC-706MKIIG > prior to the K3). Just upgraded to a 4-element > 6-meter beam - and I'm field > testing a KPA500! > > Phil - AD5X > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
