[Elecraft] K3's on 6M

[Jay Bromley]

Good advice Ken!

I've also been enjoying the K3 on 6m mostly, both on CW and SSB.  I am using
a 3 element beam on a ten foot pole attached to a Vern Wright roll over
mount under our pop up camper we never use, hi.  So far I have been working
the big guns and the little pistols with dipoles.  With my setup there is
very little feedline loss and I just point within 90 degrees of propagation.

Since I am monitoring 24/7 when no storms are about, I usually hear
something trying to break open all the time.  Even in the middle of the
night!   Lately the good openings here in Arkansas are in the afternoon, but
I am still working guys well past 0300 UTC.  This morning I was hearing more
stations coming through on CW, fun stuff!

For the most part I missed NAQP over the weekend, just played a little with
the K3 on 40m late.  Just not enough hours to get it all done, hi.

73 de w5jay/jay..

> There have been some good sporadic-E openings on 6M recently, with
> some double-hop skip contacts to the east from here in Montana.
>
> Don't have a 6M antenna?  Virtually anything will work when the band's
> "open", so try the K3's tuner on any antenna you have.  I've been doing
> well with a 1/4 wave vertical at 30', but a 5-el NBS yagi will go up @
> 75' today. (:-))
>
> A word of caution ... if you've had a low-pass filter hidden away in your
> antenna system for so long that you've forgotten it ... most won't pass 6M
> and you could end up chasing an SWR phantom. (:-)
>
> Not familiar with 6M? Many/most SSB/CW contacts are on 50.125 USB.
> The CW-upon-key-closure feature is useful here.
>
> Now, if Elecraft will make the coming 6M pre-amp available soon .... (:-)
>
> 73!  Ken Kopp - K0PP
> ElecraftCovers at rfwave.net
> or
> k0pp at arrl.net
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