Although licensed since 1958 I had never worked six meters either until the 2009
FD. (I skipped 6, went to 2M where I pioneered SSB on the band and worked Tropo,
MS and EME)
On that FD, I was casually doing some tune and pounce from home when I decided
to listen to 6 with my fairly new K3 and my 80M inverted-vee fed with 200' of
RG8. One of the local clubs was cluttering up 50.125 from 9000' up a nearby
mountain. Es was going wild so I joined in with the barefoot K3100 (no tuner and
a HB preamp) that maybe put out 10W. I worked a few stations on SSB but the
locals were making it difficult so I switched to CW and started tuning down from
.125. At 50.123 I heard a CQ. It was weak and took some serious listening to
pull out the call. I answered him and he came right back with a report.
It was JL8GFB! One hour and eight minutes later I worked JA7WSZ on 50.096. So
the band was open for over and hour between AZ and JA and apparently no one knew
it but me. (I seldom use spots today and didn't use them at all back then)
Wes N7WS
On 6/27/2016 9:56 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
I've never worked any 6M contacts until Field Day. Never had a 6M
radio till my old K3 but with my 360' of RG-8 and no 6M antenna, it
never happened.
A friend recently gave me 360' of 7/8 50 ohm hardline and I found my
160 sloper with my K3s could hear 6M signals and had a reasonably
decent SWR. None of my other wire antennas could do either well at
all.
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