[OKDXA] 6 meters

[Ken Roberson]

Gene,

Congrats on getting on 6M , you will have lots of fun this summer.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to work KL7/KB7Q ( Alaska ), He was on 50.089 CW with a nice signal, He said if the band gets beter he will go to SSB.

Working Alaska on 6M was the high-lite of the day for me, That was 
the last state that i need for WAS on 6M , now to get the QSL card.
Rig: Elecraft K3 and M2 5 ele yagi @ 50 ft.

GL and GD DXing 73 Ken K5DNL.

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--- On Mon, 6/21/10, W5LE - Gene Lewis <w5le at beggstelco.net> wrote:

> From: W5LE - Gene Lewis <w5le at beggstelco.net>
> Subject: [OKDXA] 6 meters
> To: okdxa at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 9:29 AM
> I've been a ham for nearly 50 years
> but I made my first QSO on 6 meters last weekend.  I
> had the good fortune of inheriting an Icom IC-746, which
> covers 6 and 2 meters, along with a 5 element Cushcraft
> A505S 5-element 6 meter yagi and a Cushcraft 13WB2
> 13-element yagi, as well as a Ham 2 rotor.  Having had
> this very nice windfall of equipment and antennas, it would
> have been a travesty to not do something with those
> bands.  I put up a small tower that I had lying over in
> the side of my yard and mounted these 2 antennas on it and
> got on the air last weekend.  As it turned out there
> was a VHF contest going on, which made a lot of people get
> on 6 meters.  I couldn't believe it but I worked 14
> states and Canada and Mexico last weekend.  That got me
> revved up for operating VHF.  This weekend that just
> ended, I enjoyed another flurry of activity on 6 and brought
> my states total up to 35 states worked, and 11 European
> countries.  Apparently the timing for my getting on 6
> meters was 
>  perfect because apparently it's hotter than it's been in a
> long time, based on what I'm hearing the veteran 6 meter ops
> saying.  It really does seem to be a "magic
> band".  If it's open, you can do wondrous things, if
> it's not, it's as if someone somewhere flipped a switch and
> turned the band off.  Anyway,  I'm very happy that
> the timing of my getting this equipment and antennas
> coincided with an awesome season on 6 meters.  I can't
> believe the number of states and countries I have worked in
> the past 2 weeks with 100 watts and the antenna 30 feet in
> the air.  Here's hoping that 6 meters will continue its
> current trend throughout the summer!  
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