[Elecraft] S9DX and other dxpedition tips
Lance Collister
w7gj at q.com
Sun Feb 13 15:25:26 EST 2011
On 2/13/2011 4:24 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Lance Collister<w7gj at q.com> wrote:
>
>> It certainly is a shame to go to such a rare place, with the convenient
>> capabilities of the K3, and not even trying to get on 6m JT65A ...
>
> ===========
> Well, their (earthbound) 6M policy is at:
>
> http://s9dx.hkmann.de/?Magic_Band
>
> Tony KT0NY
Hi Tony,
Yes, I know....that is probably why most of the HF DXpeditions over the last
number of years have not had any success on 6m :-( I made 26,000,000 miles's
worth of contacts on 6m on my last DXpedition to the South Pacific last fall. Of
course, I used my K3 and 6m was not an "afterthought" and I certainly encouraged
people to watch for my CQ's. By comparison, my approach was certainly not "Please
don't pester us with questions for tries on 6m." ;-)
Thank goodness there are SOME HFers interested in working 6m ;-) I worked the
first 6m station from PJ2 a couple weeks ago when PJ2/W8WTS got on JT65A mode
during his moonset with a 5 element yagi and 300w.
Looking forward to some more new DXCC on 6m this spring ;-) Up to 164 now and
have been adding a new DXCC every month for the last several years. Thanks to all
those who have shown an interest in demonstrating what CAN be done on that band!
GL and VY 73, Lance
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