[Elecraft] 6M CW

[Wes Stewart]

During the 2009 ARRL Field Day I was working from home on emergency power.  I had cobbled together a 6-meter preamp for the K3 and decided to take a listen.  I don't have a 6-meter antenna so I was using my paralleled wire 40-80 meter inverted V with almost 200' of RG214.

Two of the local clubs do FD from the cool pines on a 9,000+ feet ASL mountain NE of the Tucson valley.  One of them was hogging 50.125 on SSB and needless to say was quite strong and quite broad. I worked a few of the louder Es stations that were coming through and then tuned down below the loudmouth and heard a weak CQ on CW.  It was JL8GFB.  So I called and worked him.

An hour and ten minutes later, I worked JA7WSZ.  So the band was open to JA for over an hour and a lot of people missed it because they were on SSB and not tuning.

Wes  N7WS

--- On Tue, 7/6/10, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

6M truly is a band that allows you to have a lot of fun with a modest 
antenna when it's open. That's why it's called the magic band. 

73, Jim K9YC