[NLRS] 6M open again today

[Ronald Bergantzel via NLRS]

Hello Doug and All !!! 
Thanks for the posts and the 'plug' for Digital modes !! Just be prepared for a possible onslaught of negative responses from some of our fellow weak signal friends that maybe unable to 'grasp' and to understand the true facts that Digital QSOs are real and that they will seriously add to one's Grid / QSO totals (most all serious contester's are "ahead of the game" on this fact ! ) It is becoming apparent of this fact due to the noticeable increase in Digital activity during all VHF / UHF Contests ..... 
I personally do the Digital modes to add QSOs for contests during slow times using 144 EME with legal limit power levels and a single modified 17 element yagi - I usually work everyone I can decode throughout the world on 2 meters ( 80 to 90% completion rate even on DXPeditions !! ) . I am trying to get everything ready to go with SSB / CW / JT65c on 1296 EME and am hoping to be QRV there by the Sept contest (and the following ARRL EME Contest !! )
Thanks Again + 73 !! Ron Bergantzel KA0RYT  (Evidentally Notorious 35  near Milaca , MN .)
PS - Power line issues at the farm have been cured - they replaced the  power transformer , ALL  insulators and even the feed from the mainline on the highway !! I am totally amazed that ECE stepped up and took care of everything ( Thanks to ECE !! ) after my personal visit to their office the day after the contest - all I did was POLITELY mention it was a serious new noise issue that I was getting on my Amateur Radio .... Go Figure - the office secretary gal was a previously licensed op !!  RB
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On Mon, 6/29/15, Doug Reed <n0nas at amsat.org> wrote:

 Subject: [NLRS] 6M open again today
 To: "nlrs" <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
 Date: Monday, June 29, 2015, 11:27 AM
 
 
 
 PSKreporter.info is saying that 6M is open again today. At
 11AM the
 map is showing lots of activity from Toronto and New York to
 Louisiana
 and Florida, plus Oklahoma and Kansas to the east coast. The
 map even
 shows another Minnesota station, K0MVJ in EN36 being heard
 by N9JY in
 Florida, unless of course one of them has moved without
 updating their
 address.....
 
 Don't forget, the activity being displayed is in digital
 JT65 mode on
 50.277MHz. The specs for JT65 say it can be decoded up to
 24dB below
 the noise floor. The way I read that is that you may need
 very high
 power to make the QSO on SSB voice. My off-the-cuff guess
 would be
 that you need 100 watts SSB to do what 1 watt or less of
 JT65 is
 doing, so don't be disappointed if any voice Q's come hard.
 
 FWIW, last night the PSKreporter.info map showed the band
 was open to
 the west coast after 8PM CDT and they were talking all over
 the
 southern and eastern US. If you are chasing WAS on 6M, you
 would
 probably be well advised to try the digital modes to help
 find
 activity. You might be able to complete in one summer...
 Good luck!
 
 73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.
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