[Elecraft] Advice on 6 meters...

[Edward R Cole]

I have a friend that loads his G5RV for 6m but his signal is always 
about 20-dB weaker than mine.  I have a 3-element yagi that I 
converted from a Decibel-Products 73-MHz yagi that I scrounged up 
from pile of surplus stuff.  The elements were 3/8-inch aluminum 
tubing so I added some tubing that slid over the ends and use small 
metal hose clamps to hold them in place.  But making a small yagi or 
even just a dipole is easy.

The background noise will really pickup when you have a resonant 
antenna vs the 80m dipole.  I'm not familiar with a "hex beam" so if 
it can tune to 6m then is ought to work good.

Activity is spotty with not much happening between openings, 
contests, or local nets.  I ran with this small yagi at 20-feet for 
years.  I now have a 6-element yagi on a dedicated tower so the 
3-element is fixed to the side of my HF tower pointed toward the US 
West Coast (az=130) so my KX3 can monitor 50.125 whenever not is use 
otherwise.  10w works when the band opens!  Otherwise 100w will get 
out better with ground wave.
http://www.kl7uw.com/Tower_2_6m_2.jpg
http://www.kl7uw.com/6m.htm

73, Ed - KL7UW
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