I'm impressed I have the 6 meter attachment for my Sommer yagi. I say tons of spots for 6 meter reports I could not hear a SINGLE station. Not one...
I must live in a black hole. On 5/31/2008 8:03:02 PM, Ken N9VV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am forwarding this for Alan K2WS. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Six meter band opening on the Flex 5000 > Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 17:57:57 -0400 > From: Alan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz> > > Thursday afternoon I fired up the Flex 5000a - looking for 10 meter band > openings. After working a few Southern stations on the FM Repeaters at > 29.640/.540 and 29.680/.580 mHz, I thought > I'd listen on 6 meters. SIX > was open! and I could hear stations in the deep South - even on an F12 > C31-XR tribander. > > I don't > have a resonant antenna for 6 meters, but best results were > obtained using the F12 240-N Magnum 40 meter 2 element array at 70ft- no > kidding. Using the 240-N, the signal to noise was best and the SWR was > under 1.5 : 1. I could hear the band noise increase when I switched in > the 40 meter array! > > Like a new ham, I gave it a try. I worked: > WD4JB in Miss.@ EM64 on 50.145mHz > W4AVY in Ala. @ EM63 on 50.125mHz > KI4ROF in Tenn @EM55 on 50.175mHz. > > The power out as indicated on a PowerMaster meter was 20 watts. This > summer > I'm planning on putting up arrays for 6, 2 an _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
