[50mhz] 6 meter newbe

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I managed to get my used icom706mkIIg set up.
I have the 6 meter elements on my Sommer yagi, (nested to 40' right now due 
to winds).

I see the cluster spots but I've only really heard one station, about 10 
miles away.

I do hear noise come up to s7, but nothing intelligible as a signal
listening 50.125 and .135 USB but so far just buzzes and noise.
Both the rig and an outboard swr bridge indicate a pretty good match.
Also have a VL1000 inline but so far just ran barefoot.

I'm still reading this manual and trying to figure out this rig.
A little confused that when I 'set' the filters, that I got the cw filter 
with cw and the narrow ssb filter with ssb.

40 + years of hamming, and first time on 6 meters.




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Bill H. in Chicagoland
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