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 subband!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Tom Haavisto <kamham69@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 from MN, but I am not sure what the CW calling
> frequency is. From the look of the cluster spots, everyone operates only
> phone?
>
> Tom - VE3CX
> EN58
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Jerry <jer.sieg@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Or.. having the Rig on 6M entire contest..and not hearing 'Anything' !
> Few
> > short MS Pings.. that was it here !
> > VE6CPP
> > DN39or
> >
> >
> >
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