[HoustonHam] WHY? (was 6 meter questions)

[Mike (KA5CVH) Urich]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:14:53 -0600, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net> 
wrote:

> For me it would be! I remember about 20 years ago (when my now deceased
> elmer was into 6m) He & I chatted with a guy in Arizona all the way from
> Pasadena Tx with about 10 watts. I still have the Arizona QSL card the
> other ham sent me with 50.110 listed as the frequency.

Mike wrote

OK more anecdotal evidence.  Had a visitor (CB'er)  in the house
checking out the FT-736r.  I worked a few stations on 50.125 ssb real
quick, OK, so he's not impressed with SSB, ok hit VFO-B go to 52.525
FM.  Hear a couple of people chatting they signed so I called the weak
one, KG4YUW. Turns out he's on a VX-7R with a dipole in the attic in
EM-74.  That's about 800 miles line of sight.  I was running about 10
watts he at tops could have only been running 2 watts.

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Mike Urich, KA5CVH
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