[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Gary Smith]

Interesting,

After 35 years as a ham I made my first ever 6M qsos last night with 
my K3. The ARRL VHF Contest was on and I have no 6M antenna but long 
ago I found my 160M antenna works nicely as far as a match goes for 
6M (for 10M. 12M and 15M as well) but I never heard anyone on 6M 
ever. 

Perhaps the almost 400' run of coax to the has something major to do 
with that, line losses & all and frankly, a 160M inv-L on a salt 
marsh is not the right antenna for 6M much less contesting but... I 
managed to work 12 stations and 5 states on 6M barefoot with this 
minus gain antenna. So 6M was definitely intact yesterday.

73,

Gary
KA1J
 
>     I monitored 6 meters this week but to no avail.  All I ever
> found 
> were a few birdies.  Twenty meters was up and down when I checked it
> but 
> my normal skeds were not possible.  I worked the RMR Net on
> Thursday, 
> that was not easy either.  The sun does not look dappled enough for
> the 
> QSB we're experiencing.  There was an M-class flare yesterday but it
> was 
> not pointed at Earth.  What else could be the cause of our
> propagation 
> conditions?