[ADXA] 6 Meters to EU Today

[Crownhaven]

In fact, some of the really savvy ops (and that would have to include 
Joel) claim the best situation is to have TWO antennas. You can put one 
at altitude and the other one at 15' to 20'.  I used to have a lash-up 
like this and depending on the angle of the propagation, sometimes one 
antenna would hear a signal and the other one wouldn't and vice versa.  
In my humble opinion, the only advantage I have gotten upgrading to 
JX7-50, 28' boom is a much better signal over the ground which helps out 
in contests and an increase in noise.  Honestly, I think I'd still be 
very happy with my five element that Tom Rutland, God bless him, built 
for me, 17' boom.  It hasn't gone away.  In the meantime, I ordered a 
large LFA from the UK that I haven't assembled.  I think the boom is 
about 30' and it scares me somewhat.

BTW, I am having trouble with noise over here that is keeping me from 
hearing weaker FT8 signals.  Utility company working on it. It helps 
when there are only a handful of hams left on HF in the city.  I'm hoping.

Dennis, keep up the good work.  Joel, thanks for bringing that up.

Steve, QQ

On 5/31/2020 3:37 PM, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
>
> 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 
>> <mailto: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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