[ICOM] Activity on 6M

[Tom Norris]

It depends. 6 meter openings are usually driven
by sporadic E propagation, which is, erm sporadic.
The rest of the time it is quite useful for local
communications.

Predicting whether 6 will be open is not nearly as
easy as knowing when 20 will be open, for example.

Best way I've found to see if it is open is to monitor
for beacon activity on the low end. If you hear anything
it is open, if not, it isn't

As far as repeater activity on 6, I've yet to run across
any in my area - the southeast - regardless of the theoretical
listings in the repeater guide. Michigan may differ.

Tom NU4G

>Is 6 open or NOT?
>--- martin glazer <martinsglazer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  >
>>  --- STeve Andre' <andres at msu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  > Humph.  Here in the Frigid North of Michigan, 6M
>>  ssb
>>  > seems to be more
>>  > common than 6M FM.  This isn't to say that there
>>  > aren't people and repeaters
>>  > on 6M here, but that the interest level isn't what
>>  > it is out west.   Come to
>>  > think of it, I kept hearing of lots of activity on
>>  > 1200MHz back in the 80's
>>  > when my wife and I were two of the only people on
>>  > 23cm, along with some
>>  > few other explorer.  I'm looking at 33cm HT's now,
>>  > and of course I haven't
>>  > found more than two others who are interested.
>>  But
>>  > I'm really glad to hear
>>  > of your kind of activity!   I do wish however that
>>  I
>>  > could convince more
>>  > people that there is more than 2M FM.  (Trying to
>>  > get people to attend the
>>  > ARRL UHF contest our local club is doing for this
>>  > weekend).
>>  >
>>  > --STeve Andre'
>  > > wb8wsf