Well, I made what in retrospect was a poor decision. I had a lot of things going on this past weekend and knew I could only operate one day in the contest. I thought I would have about 8 hours on Sun
Mike chuckles Now ... reverse that ... 95+ degrees, 90%+ RH, no breeze ... and you get an idea of what field day is like for us in the greater Houston area. __________________________________________
Or.. having the Rig on 6M entire contest..and not hearing 'Anything' ! Few short MS Pings.. that was it here ! VE6CPP DN39or On 1/26/2015 9:05 AM, Mike (KA5CVH) Urich wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9
I did hear K5ER on 6 - he was trying to work a W3. Yelled at him a lot, but nothing... In retrospect, I take it that monitoring 50.125 is a good idea to see if the band is open? Copied a few beacons
One good tool is to have an SDR set up to display the beacon sub-band on 6m. I have a VHF Softrock Ensemble unit that I do this with. When the band opens, you see all these little blips in the beacon
Tom, CW on 6M for us in the US is just below 50.100, since the "DX window" is 50100 to 50125 and we should stay off that piece. 19 of my Q's and 4 of my grids on 6 were CW contacts. Every time I tune
Author: Buddy Morgan via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:02:17 -0500
I use an FT 2000D on 6M. I keep the "A" receiver on 50.125 and the "B" on 50.110. The spectrum analyzer has made many contacts for me, over the years. I suppose it would be nice to have something lik
Author: Rhinosix via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:28:49 -0500
50.276 JT65a is also good for a new grid here when the band is open. Check TE (50.110) on the longest and shortest day of the year. Always good for the ABC countries in SA at least from my latitude.
I use an FT 2000D on 6M. I keep the "A" receiver on 50.125 and the "B" on I would keep my <now sick> FT-736 6 meter VFO "A" set for 50.125 and "B" set for 52.525. One of my most memorable "q's" was w