[Elecraft] 6 meters Newbie

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> Anything I could have screwed up on the rig to make 6m a dead band?
> No problems noted on any other band.

Do you have the RX Ant selected (or ANT 2 if you have the KANT3 
installed)?   Antenna/Receive antenna status is stored per band
so you might have the wrong antenna selected on just one band.

My K3 is certainly sensitive enough - without the PR-6 - that I
can hear/work some of the stronger DX (55 countries in the band)
on a HF windom (since that's my only antenna that will take power
on six).  The noise about needing a beam on six meters does a
big disservice to anyone who wants to try the band.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV

On 7/2/2010 9:01 AM, W8JH wrote:
>
> I have not had ANY luck on 6 meters with K3 # 1713.  I had been listening
> with my 80m horizontal loop, which my Palstar BT-1500 tunes to a flat SWR on
> 6m.  Nothing heard over a full year.  Since I still couldn't hear anything I
> built a 6m dipole a couple days ago and still no luck.
>
> I can hear continuous carriers sometimes but nothing else.  I routinely
> check DX spots sent by hams near me (Ohio by Lake Erie) and have no luck.
>
> I do use the internal preamp.  Carriers on the 80m loop are louder than on
> the 6m dipole.  I had the subreceiver installed last year by Elecraft (about
> 6 weeks turnaround) and did not notice any difference.  Unfortunately I
> thought 6m was a dead band or my antenna was the problem at the time so I
> didn't think to ask Elecraft to check it out while they had the rig.
>
> Anything I could have screwed up on the rig to make 6m a dead band?  No
> problems noted on any other band.
>
> Joe- another 6m newbie