I was amazed how many locals were on 6... I must have heard 20 or 30 people
giving out grids em73 em74 .. I only worked maybe 5.. signals were weak.. not
enough antenna for long ground wave.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David L. Thompson [mailto:thompson@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: secc
> Subject: [SECC] VHF Test
>
>
> Sunday (at least when I was on) was a bust. I did work VP5,
> HI8, YV1DIG,
> VP9/N0JK, and 9Y4AT. Locals were working V25XX (who was loud
> on Friday
> nite) and he was just readable
> here. WA4NJP worked a couple of WP4's, both 9Y4's (AT and
> TL), 6Y5. another
> YV or two but not even a peep here. Not much e-skip but did
> hear KY5R,
> N4IS, and several 0's. I worked a K0 in Mn, a couple of stations in
> Chattanooga, and W4ZRZ in Birmingham. Never did hear anyone
> working TG9NX
> but did hear a XE1 briefly for one transmission.
>
> I did fix the audio on my FT 920 (it was set to hi fi), get the Heil
> boom/mic set with HC-4 going, and found the internal DVK was less than
> useful so hooked up my MFJ 432. Could have used these on
> Saturday when e
> skip was in. Per K5ZD I found the Cushcraft 2 el 40 at 88
> feet did work on
> 6 but bet a small 3 el at 50 feet would have run circles
> around it. I saw
> on eHam that K0KP who has a good signal uses a 3 el beam.
> You have to get a
> second tower for those long boom M2 antennas at K4SX or W4GF.
>
> Maybe I can swing the new 4 el SteppIR with the two parasitic
> elements for
> 6. Says 13 dbi gain and 26 db F/B which is as good as most 5
> or 6 element
> beams. W6XA says stay away from the 6 el ZX beam!!!
>
> With a good beam more than 400 QSO's were possible on 6 SSB
> from Atlanta
> using low power. W4NH reported they made over 600 from the
> mountain top.
> Can't speak for the other VHF bands as I have a 2 meter FM
> transceiver not
> connected and nothing for 222 or 432Mhz. This was my first
> activity on 6
> since 1964 mostly due to living in areas with channel 2 (I have enough
> problems
> with the neighbors on HF).
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
>
>
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