Wow, someone else that agrees with me. 6 meters is a BIG disapointment. You get on there and all you hear is stuff you could otherwise work with a 10' wire on 17 meters, and then all you get is a call sign and if you're lucky an RST.. Then before you can even say goodbye or 73 the other person has already gone. What kind of enjoyment is that? To each their own.. I'll save that kind of operation for Contesters...
> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:29:59 -0700 > From: wrco...@yahoo.com > To: j...@audiosystemsgroup.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 6M CW > > I don't feel that way at all. A contact in which only grids are exchanged > leaves me with little satisfaction at all. I at least like to exchange names > and QTH. I get enough of the quicky QSOs with contests. I don't need more > on six meters or digital contacts. I know I am out of step with the avant > guarde, but I don't enjoy six meters much because of these quick exchanges. > Willis 'Cookie' Cooke > K5EWJ > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> > To: "elecraft@mailman.qth.net" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Mon, July 5, 2010 10:41:55 AM > Subject: [Elecraft] 6M CW > > On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT), Ken McGuire wrote: > > >I was frustrated at how slow the chats were on SSB (FM was even worse) - > >it seemed like they were wasting a perfectly good band opening ragchewing > > Yep. Same here. Often, an opening on any given path may be there only long > enough to exchange the grid and report. It's quite frustrating to wait to > call a station that was S9, then S7, then S5, then S3, then fumes, while > the time is filled with innanity. > > >When I turned down to the CW portion of the band, it almost sounded like > >a CW contest weekend. > > Yes. I've gotten to the point that I spend most of my 6M efforts on CW, > only tuning up to the SSB portion of the band when nothing is happening on > CW. And thanks in part to the proliferation of K3s, there is a lot more CW > activity than there was only 5 years ago. > > 73, Jim K9YC > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 ______________________________________________________________ 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
