[ADXA] My apologies - I broke 6 meters!

[Jay Bromley]

I am sure if I leave the shack for a few minutes the band will be the best ever Nick!  I will try to give you a heads up, hi.

 

73 de jay..

 

From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Nick Kennedy
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 7:23 PM
To: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ADXA] My apologies - I broke 6 meters!

 

You sure did.  After all this chatter about 6 meters and FT8 I decided to try FT8 for the first time in the year 2021 and on 6 meters.  Heard nothing but noise and W5JAY.  

 

Maybe tomorrow.

 

73

 

Nick, WA5BDU

 

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 5:38 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com <mailto:dennisw5rz at gmail.com> > wrote:

I've always been very casual about 6 meters but have paid attention to it more in the last week or so.  It seems to be open 24 hours a day.  It's open when I go to bed and it's open when I get up.  If I'm watching FT8, I get 20-30 decodes per sequence.  Europeans are crazy good and I've worked several of them with 30-40 watts on FT8 to a 3 element yagi up 14 feet.

 

The yagi is sandwiched between antennas for 144 and 432 Mhz.  It was put there as a temporary expedient.  I wondered how much the other antennas were affecting it so I put up a separate 3 element yagi on another pole all by itself for comparison.  

 

The band was a little puny when I went out to do this, and now it is pretty much closed.  It seems weird to turn to 50.313 and not hear a cacophony of hooting signals!   

 

OK, it has to close occasionally, I know.  We wouldn't want to wear out the E-layer.  Let's hope this is just temporary and it comes back so I can play with my antennas :)   Next year - at least 5 elements up 40 feet and a little power.  Any possibility of F2 this fall and winter?  

 

On the good side, I've worked a handful of East coast stations on 2 meters on CW, SSB, and FT8. That's with 8 elements up 18 feet and 100 watts, so things have definitely been lively.

 

73,

Dennis

______________________________________________________________
ADXA mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/adxa
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:ADXA at mailman.qth.net <mailto:ADXA at mailman.qth.net> 

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/adxa/attachments/20210714/bd7a46e0/attachment-0001.html>