[50mhz] Watch out 6 meters!

[CBoone]

For 6 FM you want a vertical anyway.....Looks the dipole is fine for SSB and
AM though..

Chris
WB5ITT
President, Six Club  (www.6mt.com)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: 50mhz-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:50mhz-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Buck - N4PGW
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:19 PM
> To: 50mhz at mailman.qth.net; 6meter at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [50mhz] Watch out 6 meters!
> 
> All right folk!
> 
> I have been lurking on this forum and others for over a year 
> now.  Tonight I hung a 6 meter dipole under my 20 meter 
> dipole.  The result is that my 20 meter antenna (which was 
> cut a little short) now has flat SWR on the CW portion and 
> less than 1.3:1 on the upper end and I have a 6 meter dipole 
> that is flat from 50.01 to 50.7.  It is no good on the FM 
> portion where the local (unused) repeater is, so it looks 
> like you fine folk are stuck with another contact hiding in EM83xl.
> 
> My first and only 6 meter contact to date was with a mobile 
> in a neighboring town.  Maybe with a real antenna I can now 
> hear someone else too.
> 
> Hope to see you there.
> 
> Buck
> N4PGW
> 
> 
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