[Elecraft] 6 meters Newbie

[Ken McGuire]

Partially because of this thread, I got on 6M a bit Saturday when there was
an obvious 10M opening.

While most of my qso's since 2002 have been CW, I had yet to make a 6M CW
qso.  Instead I had just used SSB and FM.  But in the opening Saturday, I
found out a few things.

1)  I was frustrated at how slow the chats were on SSB (FM was even worse) -
it seemed like they were wasting a perfectly good band opening ragchewing. 
I don't mind ragchewing and will do a bit of it myself, but usually on 30,
40, or 80.

2)  When I turned down to the CW portion of the band, it almost sounded like
a CW contest weekend.  Very efficent operating and the band was FULL of
signals.  The receiver I had been using for 6M was not really up to this.  I
eventually dug out the TT 1208 and attached it to my K2.  MUCH better for
me, even if less power going out.

Ken McGuire
KC8LTL en72
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