[50mhz] 6m anyone?

[Jim Isbell]

Amen and Amen.  I am another "old fart" that remembers the "good old 
daze" of international band openings etc.  I used a Harristahl Labs NE-6 
transmitter and a home brew converter into my car AM radio.  If the 
bands ever return to those old glory days I will put my Swan 250 on the 
air.  But the band openings of the late 60s will be hard to beat.  There 
were people on 6 back in those days.

Dr M J Di Girolamo wrote:

> 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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