Message: 22 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:56:16 -0400 From: "Gary Smith" < g...@ka1j.com > Message-ID: < 57720370.25109.21c1...@gary.ka1j.com >
" Extracts: I've never worked any 6M contacts until Field Day...my 160 sloper with my K3s ... 6M from SE Connecticut was only open to the 4th call area. ...What I found difficult was the intelligibility of many of the 6M stations; many sounded almost like they were on LSB but they were on USB. There was little to understand and it seemed like their signal was maybe compressed. Others were clear as a bell but I only worked a few as my amp is 160-10. I'm guessing some of the radios must have had a problem, I thought it might be indicative of 6M contacts till I heard the clear stations. But well more than half were impossible to tune in easily." -Gary KA1J Gary, I ran our 6 Meter station for the W0NT 7E effort using my K3S, the first time, and the club's 5 element yagi. Propagation is always a crap shoot on 6M. This year was characterized at our site by popcorn openings-an opening that seemed to explode open with a station's call and then disappear as quickly. The openings were sporatic. Heard IL, WI and actually worked a few TN stations.. Some audio signals were garbled, like aurora, EME, or long path and were very hard to copy. I had no large openings that would have allowed me to test the filtering capabilities of the K3S! Darn!!!! Roughly 25 contacts for 24 hrs...not up to expectations! No Es into California, which was running the past few days before FD. Perhaps the yagi was too much antenna. A simple 6M dipole might have been a better choice. Thought about constructing one during the exercise but didn't want to miss any time away from the radio. Plenty of time to hone the antennas and technique between now and next FD. Jim KC0TRK ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
