[50mhz] 6m anyone?

[Dr M J Di Girolamo]

At 12:17 AM 09/25/2003, you wrote:
>Ahh the memories of back in the 70s near Port Arthur......heck Im ready 
>for 6 again!! Its the only decent band left in my book.....
>
>Chris
>WB5ITT
>NW Houston, TX

Hi Chris,

   Reading your post made me recall my wonderful introduction into ham 
radio back in 1968.  I too was young in those days.. in the USAF and 
stationed at Eglin AFB, in Ft Walton Beach, Florida.   I lived in a dinky 
and ratty old house with a trailer park directly behind me.  I was walking 
through the park one evening when I heard a bunch of talking coming from a 
tiny metal shed adjacent to one of the trailers.  I curiously looked for 
signs of life inside the open door and there was a fella (K5ECH) with a 
microphone in his hands.. his shadow visible against the panel lamps of a 
multitude of radios.  I was fascinated!  His 6M radio was a Heath Sixer 
(lunchbox) and his antenna was on a pole mast probably no more than 15' 
high.  He used what he called an "Armstrong Rotator.  ie with his arm out 
the door, he rotated the mast to the position he desired.

    Within months I was licensed (WB4HEM in those days) and had a home made 
beam up (formulated from the ARRL Antenna Book) some 35' atop an old 
military antenna pole.  I had purchased a second hand Polycon 6 (AM) for a 
transceiver.  There became a group of us who regularly worked six, 
including WB4KAN, and others.  Those band openings created such a level of 
excitement that, of all the experiences I've had as a ham to date, none can 
top the memories of working a 6M band opening.

      Now I'm waiting to install a roof tower, upon which shall be mounted 
a 2 element 5 band quad.  You can bet that one of those bands will be SIX 
METERS!  I'm making it a goal, God willing, to work some more 6 M openings 
before I depart this earth!  No band offers more excitement to me.

73,

Mike, W4XN




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