On Saturday, May 25, 2024, 9:20 AM, John Burkhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
______________________________________________________________Hello NLRS and thank you for adding me to the list!
I’m a new ham having just earned my license in 2023 and have since been working mostly FT8 on the HF bands. VHF/UHF is still a bit mysterious to me, but having learned just a little bit about the 6m band, I tuned in on May 11th during that auroral event and was rewarded with the craziest sounding signals! I was hooked. I couldn’t work the station because they we always working another station when the faded in, but it was so cool listening. I’m at EN34, that station was at EN37—about 175 miles. This morning, having dutifully learned that sporadic E and 6m propagation tends to be more prevalent as the summer months come, I tuned into 6m this morning and worked three stations in Texas and three more in Minnesota and Wisconsin. I am hooked.
Along with operating digital on HF bands. I’ve also been learning CW. My home station used most times is an Icom IC-7300 using a 44-foot doublet and I have been very pleased with its performance. Portable, I’m on an Icom 705 using a variety of antennas to check out how they work and generally just experimenting. I feel a VHF amplifier coming on for that rig.
Thanks again, I’m looking forward to meeting you this year at Aurora 2024.
John Burkhardt, KF0AE, 73
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