[HIham] RE: 6 meter Feb 17 at 1900W

[Bart Aronoff]

Thanks very much, John, for trying.  Yes, we were on the air at 19:00, on
the icom 706mkIIg, with a "buddypole" dipole set up for 6m, but heard
nothing but static.  Tried to get out for about  10 minutes, but apparently
no one heard us as well.  I guess the topography was not helping.  Anyhow,
we did learn something, and appreciaty your help.

Aloha/73

~Bart/WH6AA 

| -----Original Message-----
| From: John Buck [mailto:kh7t at arrl.net] 
| Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:12 PM
| To: hiham at mailman.qth.net; rhashiro at verizon.net; Norm Cohler; 
| ba at hawaii.rr.com
| Subject: 6 meter Feb 17 at 1900W
| 
| I am located 4 miles east of Kamuela on the Big Island.
| 
| To support the suggested 50.125 mHz SSB test, I connected my 
| K2 to a TenTec 1208 6 Meter Transverter with about 8 watts 
| out, to a Comet 10 foot vertical for 6,2 and 440, on top of 
| my mast at about 45 foot above ground.  I also used my 17 
| meter beam with 3 to 1 swr for horizontal.  
| The station is at 3000 ft elevation.
| 
| I was on from 1900 to 1930W and worked N8MCD/KH6 on a cruise 
| ship off Kailua Kona.  He was running 5 watts with a 6 meter 
| rubber duck.  The contact was interesting but signal was too 
| weak for traffic.  The distance was about 40 miles with a 
| 4000 foot ridge between us.  Vertical sort of worked, 
| Horizontal did not.
| 
| NH7UA activated the NHCH Hospital on 6 meters at about 0930W 
| and we made contact with excellent signals.
| I am only about 5 miles from him but a ridge between us 
| definitely hurts
| 2 meter contacts on that path.
| 
| At about 0900W today I also worked KD6QAI/KH6.  He is located 
| about 20 miles south of Hilo.  I was able to contact him with 
| the vertical to his horizontal beam.  But it was tough copy 
| both ways so I switched to the F12-5ba beam using the 17 
| meter band connection with about 3 to 1 SWR.  
| The contact became 54 or 55 good copy.
| 
| I never did hear anything from the military camp.  I do not 
| know if they were on.  I did call CQ quite a few times on the 
| scheduled frequency.
| 
| So this was an interesting ham radio day.
| 
| Aloha,
| John KH7T
|