[Elecraft] Seems That 6 Meters is Some What Open

[Edward R Cole]

Andy,

The problem is there are few stations in Alaska, whether they work 6m 
or any other band.  About 2002 it was stated there were 3802 licenced 
hams residing in AK.  Now you know half of them never get on at 
all.  Out of the other half 50% do only HF: the other 49% do only 
VHF-FM.  That leaves 1% maybe 38 hams spread over an area 2-1/2 times 
the size of Texas.  In fact there are spread.  50% of the state's 
population lives within 100-miles of Anchorage (pop 370K), then 
Fairbanks (about 80K).  6m Es work into the Fairbanks area more often 
than south of there.  KL7NO is well known 6m op up there.

I live 65-miles south of Anchorage (KL7KY and KL7HBK who are devout 
sixers) often have Es and I don't or vice versa.

Then there are hundreds of square miles without anyone (let alone a 
ham).  Who you gonna work out there on the Tundra?  A Cariboo or 
Bear?  Es do no good it not landing in the very limited populated 
locations.  Then Es are (evidentally) more common in lower latitudes.

The *real* answer is EME.  Prop is open for eme when the moon is up; 
happens every day.  Yes, there are parameters that make eme better or 
worse so maybe say is available half a month, every month.

And that is why I am building a two-antenna 6m eme array.  So all you 
down there can achieve WAS.

I will not be QRV until September with new array.

73, Ed - KL7UW
http://www.kl7uw.com/6m.htm

"My question would be how (m)any KL7's did you work? 99% of openings 
do not happen "Up here"."

And that is my problem! Only Alaska left to work for 6 m WAS and it 
seems that even in the best openings there are very few Alaska 
stations even listening. Yesterday I did see that KL7KY and KL7HBK 
were shown as FT8 listeners by PSKReporter but I couldn't raise 
either. That was on a day that I worked Canary Islands in the 
afternoon and Japan in the evening.

So what is the the magic set of circumstances that opens a 6 m path 
between AK and AZ?

73,

Andy k3wyc


73, Ed - KL7UW
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