[50mhz] [VHF] 6 meters this April

Fri Apr 30 19:35:12 EDT 2010

Last  June,.... I worked 16 European  Countries.  if that was a mediocre

 Season ,... PUT me down for 4 more !

 I have been on 6 meters since 1996,........ and I think  it is NOT, a sign 
of things to come.

 46 Countries from SOUTH LOUISIANA,........ isnt bad.

 However last year I got a NEW ANTENNA,,  a Force 12  9 element on a 30' 
Boom.

 this Year,........ I have added 3  4CX350's to the  system............. & I 
moved to Misissippi.

 Now I am 500'  above Sea Level............. PLUS the 80 ft of tower & and 
Mast..

              Joey

                                                      A.R.S. W5TFW
                                                      Richard J. Fiero II

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 LIFE'S   TOUGH !

 It's even tougher, if you are STUPID !

                                          John Wayne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill VanAlstyne W5WVO" <w5wvo at cybermesa.net>
To: "N1BUG" <paul at n1bug.com>; "John Geiger" <aa5jg at yahoo.com>
Cc: <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>; <vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [50mhz] [VHF] 6 meters this April

>I have considerably less 6m experience than a lot of y'all (just since
> 2003), but in my limited experience, an early start to the Es season has
> been associated with a rather mediocre overall season, once past June. 
> That
> said, my guess is that said perceived correlation is SHEER COINCIDENCE. 
> LOL
> Data pool simply too small.
>
> I've yet to see an Es season here in NM that didn't get started "for real"
> right around May 12, plus or minus a day or so. The number of early or
> anomalous openings does vary quite a bit from year to year, both in terms 
> of
> dates and number of occurrences. So far this year, not much to write home
> about from NM, and I must content myself with monitoring the Es map,
> watching all the guys on the East Coast working the early stuff, as 
> happens
> pretty much every year around this time.
>
> Just two more weeks to go, though, and the 2010 Es season should be off 
> and
> running in NM!
>
> Bill W5WVO
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "N1BUG" <paul at n1bug.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:06 PM
> To: "John Geiger" <aa5jg at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu>; <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>;
> <6meter at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [VHF] 6 meters this April
>
>> It sure seems better than most Aprils here in central Maine. There have
>> been several single hop openings and at least one to the Caribbean. A few
>> days ago there was an opening to S. America. The HC8/b was booming in, as
>> were HC2FG (think that's the right call) and HC1HC whom I worked for a 
>> new
>> one! Never imagined that would happen in April. HC8/b was in for quite
>> some time, but the HC stations were each loud for just a minute or two.
>> Oh, TI2NA/b and TG9AWS/b were blasting in for a long time also.
>>
>> HC8GR/b is hard to keep inside even a wide rx passband. It's chirp 
>> exceeds
>> even my former 220 MHz all tube transmitter, which up til now was the 
>> most
>> chirpy thing I've heard that didn't have feathers. ;-)
>>
>> I have no idea if this bodes well for summer or not, but I sure hope so!
>>
>> Paul N1BUG
>>
>>
>> John Geiger wrote:
>>> I am starting my 19th summer on 6m (how time flies when you are
>>> having fun), and I must say this is the best April I have ever
>>> seen for 6m given the openings we have had here in SW Oklahoma
>>> and especially based on the spots I have seen so far-Hawaii into
>>> NM, the east coast into the Carribean.
>>>
>>> So, for you long time and/or serious 6 meter ops, I have 2
>>> questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Is this the best April you remember as well? 2. Does there
>>> seem to be any relationship between how the beginning of the
>>> summer Es season is in terms of April openings and how the summer
>>> Es season is as a whole?
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