[ADXA] 6M - Last comments.....Promise

[Roger]

I can guarantee that 6 will fizzle sometime late this week.
I will have my 6 meter beam back on the tower then.
Roger, N5QS



On 7/12/2020 9:53 AM, ejj at suddenlink.net wrote:
> Great memories for you Pat.  Anybody on this group do any medium wave or 630 meter operating?
>
> 6 meters not good today here.  Yesterday morning was nice opening.  Worked as far east as  Ukraine.
>
> Probably have a couple of more weeks before it fizzles out.
>
> EJ K5EJ
>
>
> ---- Crownhaven <crownhaven at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Thanks Pat.  If anyone is interested in these antennas, here is a
>> snapshot.  HF DF.  They are still in operation in Germany.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber
>>
>>
>> Steve, QQ
>>
>> On 7/11/2020 7:41 PM, patw5vy at gmail.com wrote:
>>> One last post about 6M.  Yesterday I worked Martin, GM8IEM, in
>>> Clashmore, Lochinver, in extreme NW Scotland on 6M FT8.  I was
>>> stationed at RAF Edzell in the lowlands of Scotland during my Navy
>>> enlistment in the late ‘60s.  The runways at RAF Edzell were closed
>>> and a big Circular Disposed Antenna Array was built.  The base was
>>> about 10 miles inland from the North Sea.  This was during Vietnam and
>>> at the height of the “Cold War” so you can guess who we were listening
>>> to.  Google “AN/FRD-10".  I worked shifts and had a couple of days off
>>> between shift cycles.  I had a right hand drive VW Bug and used my
>>> days off to explore Scotland.  I drove pretty far up the NW coast to
>>> the town of Ullapool. The west coast of Scotland is a bit like our
>>> Pacific Northwest coast…raw and beautiful.   Martin, GM8IEM, lives
>>> about 45 miles north of Ullapool.  I sent him an email telling of my
>>> visit to Ullapool and the Isle of Skye. He answered my email and it
>>> turns out Martin was a Chartered Engineer,  (our Prof Engineer) doing
>>> RF Design  for Plessy/Siemens in the south of England and took early
>>> retirement in 1999.  He is an avid Medium Wave DXer….AM Broadcast
>>> band.  He chose his location in Scotland to be an optimum, low noise,
>>> location to do world wide AM band DXing.  He has beverages for the BC
>>> band in several directions.  He is the first operator in the UK to
>>> hear AM Broadcast stations in New Zealand since the 1930s.  He has
>>> heard stations in Hawaii, West Coast of USA…all around the world.
>>> Martin took a grand bus tour of the US back in the late 60s…got as
>>> close as Kansas City to AR.
>>>
>>> Today I worked Clive, GM3POI, on Orkney Island.  Clive and I had
>>> breakfast one morning in the Crown Plaza in Dayton.  I think it was
>>> about five years ago.  He is an interesting fellow and I remember his
>>> comparison of Dayton to Friedrichshafen (Big EU Ham Radio gathering is
>>> southern Germany).  His assessment of Hara Arena was the equivalent of
>>> an outhouse!  But, there was lots of cool stuff and folks at Dayton
>>> that made up for it.
>>>
>>> I love ham radio and the connections it generates.
>>>
>>> Today, I wasn’t the “Big Gun” on 6M. Frank, W5BPT, who live 12 airline
>>> miles from me was hearing/working EU stations that I wasn’t hearing at
>>> all. That went on for 30 minutes before the “spotlight” shined on me.
>>> Also, I heard Joel, W5ZN working Ukraine…no joy here.  As Bill, K5FUV,
>>> posted…it’s all about propagation.  I do think that having a decent
>>> antenna and a bit of power can help squeeze a QSO out of the “gray
>>> area” between good propagation and no propagation.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Pat, W5VY
>>>
>>>
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