[Elecraft] Advice on 6 meters...

[Vic Rosenthal K2VCO]

My 2 cents: I am on the West Coast, and I have a 3-element beam at about 
18 feet for 6 meters. I run 100w from my K3, CW only. During the summer 
when there are sporadic E openings, I have worked stations all over the 
US, including the East Coast. VHF contests are also an excellent time to 
get on.  But it's mostly dead, especially in winter. I haven't 
experienced a single F2 skip opening this cycle (if there was one, I 
missed it).

I recall working stations all over the country with about 5 watts of AM 
phone in 1957. Imagine 6 meters full of heterodynes, wall-to-wall AM 
stations!  DX, too. But those days are probably not going to return for 
a while.


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73,

Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/