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

Sun Jul 12 13:43:12 EDT 2020

And Terry just shipped a 4 element rear-mounted antenna I was gg to mount low on my tower.  Yep, prop gone.  But CQ VHF this coming weekend.  Our last hurrah.

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> On Jul 12, 2020, at 12:22 PM, Roger <n5qs at ncaars.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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