[Lowfer] 6 MHz Canadian Medfers?

Bill de Carle ve2iq at magma.ca
Sat Jul 16 16:35:23 EDT 2016


Antenna is low dipole, not resonant on this frequency.  Same ant I 
was using when
John copied this signal years ago. I believe he was in Maine then too, but
distance is nearly the same from here to Maine or Mass.

I was also thinking after dark should be better, maybe 0200 .. 0400z?
Bill VE2IQ

At 03:59 PM 7/16/2016, Cliff, K6CLS wrote:
>What antenna are you using?
>
>I would guess 6.7MHz propagation is more like 40m than 60m
>
>Cliff K6CLS CM87
>
>On July 16, 2016 10:28:05 AM PDT, Bill de Carle <ve2iq at magma.ca> wrote:
> >Warren:
> >
> >Per Industry Canada bulletin RSS210:
> >
> >Band Limits: 6.765 - 6.795 Mhz
> >
> >Maximum Field Strength (inside the band):  15.5 mV/M at 30M distance
> >
> >Carrier stability:  better than +/- 100 ppm
> >
> >73,
> >Bill
> >
> >At 08:24 AM 7/16/2016, Warren wrote:
> >>Thanks Bill!
> >>What are the upper and lower frequency limits of the 6MHz allocation?
> >>
> >>>If you want something to look for, just activated the old "2IQ" PSK31
> >>>beacon on 6776.8 Khz.  It puts out about 4 milliwatts but has been
> >>>successfully copied in the past by John (TAG) in  your neck of the
> >>>woods.  Good luck!
> >>>Bill VE2IQ
> >
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