[Elecraft] OT K3 on 6m

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

Not much heard from Montana DN55 either.  I believe that we are victims to
events that hit the polar regions.  There were some openings NM, FLA, TX,
etc but nothing to write home about and nothing to keep me pinned to the
radio.  I checked the bands often and called lots of people that just never
heard me.  I think most beams never pointed our way.

The K3 worked great.  No issues. 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Rasmussen
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 9:50 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] OT K3 on 6m

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_Skimm
er_and_PowerSDR

http://tinyurl.com/6kmw4x

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

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