[ADXA] 6 Meters to EU Today

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Dennis - many thanks for your report. It supports my comments that a
single antenna not far off the ground will perform very well on 6
meters! 

ZN 

On 2020-05-31 14:32, Dennis Schaefer wrote:

> I have a 3 element 6M yagi about 12 feet off the ground and around 1325, I copied over a dozen Europeans -  F, G, I, S50, etc. on 50.323.  They were gone a couple of minutes later.  I heard some US stations calling CQ down in the CW band but heard no DX.  It was good to hear Europe coming in on FT8, though.  I also decoded an East Coast station on 2 meters, so sporadic E is heating up on that band. 
> 
> I heard the W6's and W7's working EU for a long time, and also an XE2 was working one after another. 
> 
> 73, 
> Dennis, W5RZ 
> 
> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 3:17 PM <w5zn at w5zn.org> wrote: 
> 
>> The EU 6 meter opening this morning into Arkansas was very short. I only 
>> had about a 10-15 minute opening here. No new ones worked but the 
>> amazing thing about the opening today was folks out west in W7 territory 
>> had a 2 to 3 our opening to EU which is very rare!
>> 
>> So, keep tuned to 6 meters for the next few weeks we're at the peak time 
>> annually and so far there have been some nice surprises but sometimes 
>> they are very short and unexpected like yesterday's Africa opening.
>> 
>> 73 Joel W5ZN
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