[Elecraft] 6m meteor scatter

[David Olean]

Good point, Wes.

If you have a really good station on both ends, SSB would be a lot 
faster and more fun in my opinion.  I used to get sked requests from 
K9NS for contest points on 50 and 144 a few years back. We used SSB and 
not digi mode. In September it took about 1 minute to complete with him 
on 144 MHz.  That was with a 20 dB antenna on each end and KWs. You 
spent more time pushing buttons on FSK-441 . SSB was effortless. I have 
not tried MSK144 yet.  If you have a marginal setup with less than 1500 
w and a big antenna, the digi modes make sense for a faster QSO.  Still, 
I think SSB is more exciting. CW needs pretty high speed operating 
ability for manual xmissions, but that is just as exciting if you can 
swing it.  I can copy at about 35 if I am looking for calls. I think 
that is a good start for CW! 45 is better.

The most fun I ever had in ham radio was working SSB random contacts 
during a Perseids peak, and then of course the big Leonids shower back 
in 2001 or 2002. I miss that stuff now.

Dave K1WHS

On 12/5/2018 7:44 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> Why not just use CW (or even SSB)?
>
> Disclaimer.  I have zero experience with 6M MS.  That said, I have 
> confirmed QSOs with every continental state west of the Mississippi 
> and a few east on 2M MS (or tropo) :-)
>
> Wes  N7WS
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