[Elecraft] OT K3 on 6m

[Don Rasmussen]

Friday night after work I took some list member advice
and put an antenna up for K3 on 6 meters.

It was a contest weekend so I figured there would be
lots of people around the band. 

In 30 years I had never gotten around to 6 meters.

Friday night I heard - nothing.

Saturday morning I heard a few locals that I had seen
at club meetings but always thought they were
"inactive".

The were clustered at 50.125 most of the morning
asking each other if the other one was hearing
anything. ??? ;-)

I thought "so THIS is what they do?" !!!

Checking the band off and on around TV, etc. then
Sunday afternoon I started hearing the other guys
working stations on SSB, then some good CW rolling in.

The opening was from Seattle down the coastline to San
Diego, with a Colorado station thrown in for good
measure. The ground plane on the roof (6m cut down
from 10m) was up to the task, and K3 - fabulous. I
don't have a 6m wattmeter or tuner, but K3 provided
the SWR and power out for me.

Also interesting was that I was hearing very little if
anything on 10m while 6m was open. Maybe nobody was
there? Seems to me MUF still governs sporadic E. 

Lots of fun, hope to do some more. 

Also this weekend, added a small section for LP-PAN to
the wiki. As always, feel free to contribute - please.
!!!

http://www.zerobeat.net/mediawiki/index.php/LP-PAN_and_LP-Bridge%2C_CW_Skimmer_and_PowerSDR

http://tinyurl.com/6kmw4x

http://www.zerobeat.net/mediawiki/index.php/K3_Wiki_at_ZeroBeat.NET