Interesting, After 35 years as a ham I made my first ever 6M qsos last night with my K3. The ARRL VHF Contest was on and I have no 6M antenna but long ago I found my 160M antenna works nicely as far as a match goes for 6M (for 10M. 12M and 15M as well) but I never heard anyone on 6M ever.
Perhaps the almost 400' run of coax to the has something major to do with that, line losses & all and frankly, a 160M inv-L on a salt marsh is not the right antenna for 6M much less contesting but... I managed to work 12 stations and 5 states on 6M barefoot with this minus gain antenna. So 6M was definitely intact yesterday. 73, Gary KA1J > I monitored 6 meters this week but to no avail. All I ever > found > were a few birdies. Twenty meters was up and down when I checked it > but > my normal skeds were not possible. I worked the RMR Net on > Thursday, > that was not easy either. The sun does not look dappled enough for > the > QSB we're experiencing. There was an M-class flare yesterday but it > was > not pointed at Earth. What else could be the cause of our > propagation > conditions? ______________________________________________________________ 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
