[50mhz] 6m Tropo

[John Geiger]

Tropo can surprise you on 6m, though.  I remember during one good tropo opening on 2m I was working George, N0LIE in EM27. I asked if he could QSY to 6m since I needed EM27 there and we both moved.  I expected to be straining to hear his signal right at the noise level but he was as loud as on 2m!  About blew me away.  Now during another 2m tropo opening I did get W5SFW in DM95 to QSY to 6m and that was one of the straining to hear him above the noise level QSOs.

73s John AA5JG
Lawton, OK EM04

--- On Thu, 4/15/10, Marvin L. Jones <jonz at config.com> wrote:

> From: Marvin L. Jones <jonz at config.com>
> Subject: Re: [50mhz] 6m Tropo
> To: "Karl J. Zuk" <karlzuk at hotmail.com>
> Cc: 50mhz at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 12:27 PM
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Karl J. Zuk
> wrote:
> 
> >I am working towards a VUCC using only a 10 watt Yaesu
> FT-690RII in FN31
> >in New York, USA. I see a great deal of excitement when
> Es or F2 comes
> >in. When we have huge tropo. lifts I often can not
> raise one station.
> >Why do 6m ops disregard tropo? Is it because they find
> better
> >signal strengths on 2m and 70cm? I need more grid
> squares and tropo
> >activity would certainly help. Thanks for listening!
> Comments welcomed.
> >Karl Zuk N2KZ
> 
> Don' be discouraged with only 10W.  In 9 or so years I
> worked 420+ grids
> fro DM68 (SW Colorado) -- probably 250+ of which were ConUS
> -- with 10W
> from an IC-551 into a 3-el beam.
> 
> Best DX was western Australia (and that SOB doesn't QSL...)
> I also Had
> DX to Japan, several S. Pacific Islands, Alaska (including
> Prudhoe Bay),
> Greenland, Bermuda, lots of S. America, and plenty of the
> Caribbean.
> 
> Patience, persistence and diligence.  And, with 10W
> don't try to muscle
> your way around on 50.125.  That'll only work during
> the first few
> minutes of an opening -- then the Big Guns show up with
> their 1-channel
> rigs.  Pick "non-channel" freqs to call CQ on: .137.5,
> .142.5, etc.
> 
> GL es 73
> Jonesy
> -- 
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