[50mhz] [VHF] 6 meters this summer

[manualman at juno.com]

I've been on 6 meters since 1959. Some years are good; some are not; it's
the luck of the draw on 6. Sometimes you get lucky (i.e. being there for
that short short opening to some place 5000 or 6000 miles away), and
other times, you're out doing gardening when it happens.

Pete, wa2cwa

> 
> On 6/22/2011 10:14 AM, John Geiger wrote:
> > This is my 20 summer on 6m.  I got started in 1992 with a Kenwood 
> TS600, a
> > tube amp, and a dipole.  So far this summer propagation from 
> Oklahoma has been
> > the worst I have ever seen, and that includes the other locations 
> I have also
> > operated from.  We have had a couple of good openings, but that is 
> it. At this
> > point in the summer we should be getting openings almost every 
> day.  Instead,
> > we are getting 1 or 2 short openings a week, at best.
> >
> > Have any others who have been on 6m a long time seen conditions 
> this bad?
> > What are others in different parts of the country experiencing?