[50mhz] 6m contacts....

[Joseph Acevedo]

Nice job, Stan!!  Always great to hear another new voice on SIX.  I hope
you contine to enjoy our hobby's best kept secret...6 meters!

Hope to hear you on SIX!

73 de N6SIX
Joe Acevedo

At 05:55 PM 7/14/2002 -0500, Stan Olson wrote:
>Well, I must say that the homebrew dipole worked pretty well this morning. 
>6m opened up a tad and I
>was able to finally make a few contacts outside of Illinois, go figure! :) I 
>worked AZ, NM, TX, FL,
>and SC, not too shabby for my dinky setup. I even attempted my first on-air 
>CW contacts and made 2
>of them, both in TX! I finally got to run PSK31 on 6m, and made 3 contacts 
>there. So all in all, I
>had a great day on 6m. Heck, I even saw my callsign go across the DX packet 
>cluster:
>
>50290.0  K9SWX       14-Jul-2002 1736Z  PSK31  5/7 HR IN DM82         <K5YC>
>
>I heard a couple stations on 52.525 FM as well, but could not make it 
>through for some reason. (I
>think the one guy in TX had a pileup, hehe) Anyways, I just thought I would 
>share my excitement with
>the group. Nothing spectacular to most, but to me it was a thrill. I'm 
>starting to see a few more 6m
>packets come across, so might be another opening?? 73!
>
>Stan, K9SWX
>Champaign, IL
>
>
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