[Elecraft] My New Mobile

[Edward R Cole]

Jim,

I'm long time* off CW so my receiving needs some work (practise) 
before I try to do any significant CW (on any band).  *Long time 
means 1958-59 when I was a Novice.

Certainly CW gets thru under marginal conditions. KL7YK was active 
yesterday on 50.095.  And 50.125 is clobbered by QRM but this where 
people monitor.  If I were to call in the blind at 50.130 or 50.140 I 
could be totally missed in a short opening.  But sometimes I do QSY 
up.  I would never try CW while mobile, though.

Someone "down there" needs to spot me onto another frequency for that 
to work (usually).  I didn't stay on the logger after I started 
working stations.  Plenty of others to do the spotting.

A couple years ago during the CQ VHF Contest I did some work at 
50.260 on digital modes but not a lot of 6m folks do that, it 
seems.  I will be trying some meteor scatter and eme on 6m after my 
kW amp is running.

73, Ed - KL7UW

From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
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From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My New Mobile

On Sun,7/31/2016 11:00 AM, Edward R Cole wrote:
 > I have the 2M module so can operate 6m/2m SSB for roving/mobile.

Do you work CW? It's a LOT more effective under the marginal conditions
that often exist on 6M/2M. Saw you spotted yesterday on the calling
frequency. That's a great place to monitor, but a terrible place to
operate. The good ops move off the calling frequency when the band is open.

73, Jim K9YC


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