[50mhz] 6m anyone?

[Brian Carling]

I guess what I am thinking about is the more tricky weak tropo openings that I hear 
are happening VERY frequently.
I often hear a fellow a few mioles form me, NW5E, Gary
who works stations that I can't even HEAR onm y longwire antenna, 
and he gives them an S-9 signal report!

Of course, Gary uses a huge multi-element directional array
on 6m and lots of power so he can raise them out of nowhere!!

I am just hoping I will hear a lot better with this set-up and I know a quad is 
supposed to have a good capture area on receive too.

I know what band openings are like - and a wet string will do then!

My name is on ALL my e-mails, so not sure why I am being asked to sign, but 
here goes anyway:

Signed,

Brian Carling

Radio AF4K

Grid: EL98is

Sanford, FL

AR - K

On 24 Sep 2003 at 21:48, Curt Sanders wrote:

> Brian Carling9/24/03 8:23 PMbcarling@cfl.rr.com
> 
> > OK well then WHO will talk about 50 MHz?
> > 
> > I am about to soon erect a VHF quad for 6m/2m (yes that OTHER band
> > that we shouldn't talk about, grin!) It only has 2 elements on 6m
> > and I will only have it up about 25 feet high, but hopefully with
> > 100W I can expect to work the waek ones that I hear if I can just
> > HEAR them!
> > 
> > Anyone else using a modest set-up like that on 6m?
> > How are your results these days?
> 
> I use a 3-beam Cushcraft INSIDE an apartment building with 10 watts
> PEP SSB and have worked LOTS of folks as far west as Colorado and many
> in the Canadian Maritime and to the south in Florida all from central
> PA. Truely a magic band!
> 
> K3URT, Curt
> 
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> http://www.CurtSanders.com/K3URT
> 
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