[50mhz] What happened to Six

[kd5giv@mesh.net]

Hello,
I am in Fort Worth. I have problems with the T.V. but even with the 
low pass filter if the antenna is pointing even close to the antenna's 
location the T.V. goes bye bye. The strange thing is it is on the 
channel 11 that it does the worst. You would think it would be 
channel 2. If I turn to beam west I can talk all day and night without 
hurting anything. The ironny is 2 meters does the same, both with a 
rat shack discone or a 3 element beam.


On 25 Sep 2003 at 20:19, Michael N Hopkins wrote:

>  
> > There were people on 6 back in those days.<
> >
>  
> Wonder why?
> 
> In my study of it, I've identified four groups who made the 50s (and
> '60s) roar on Six Meters.  Let's try to follow those unusual suspects:
> 
> 1.  Ex Parte Five Meter homebrewers who drilled holes in boards to mount
> 210s without the bases to put a pair up on 58 mc in Push-Push.
> -- We still see their stuff in Silent Key sales but it gets hauled to the
> dump, usually.
> 
> 2.  Civil Defence Operators -- From whom would we now defend?
> 
> 3.  Folks who want a radio in their car -- Two Meter FM consumed these
> first and they have cell phones now.
> 
> 4.   High Pass Technicians who could go no lower -- They went up instead.
> 
> So of all the factors favoring Six then, none now exist.  There was no
> magic to The Magic Band, as a silly little book termed it a few years
> ago.  Six in the Golden Age was a creature of regulations, largely.  It
> was something of a RF ferryboat and, when it docked, the travelers got
> off.  You can still go out to the island, but there's not much there
> except fascinating propagation and, like every picnic place, the flies of
> 20M style DXing about the time you get comfortable.
> 
> 73 de ab5L, Student of Tecraft and 6M's Golden Age, 1956-58
> Michael, MNHopkins@JUNO.com, Box. 226841, Dallas 75222
> 
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