[OKDXA] 6 meters

[Peter Laws]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:14, John Geiger <aa5jg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Gene,
>
> Yes it is neat what you can do on 2m once you get off of FM, although Es contacts have been made on FM as well.  Since I moved here in 2001 I have worked 39 states and 158 grids on 2m.  Never ran more than 160 watts and the largest antenna I had up was a 13B2 at 30 feet.  Currently using a Kenwood TS2000 at 100 watts on 2m and a Cushcraft dualband yagi that has 5 elements on 2m, and I am still making plenty of Es QSOs with that setup.  I think my best on 70cm with it has been 315 miles or so into far east Texas (EM31).


That's encouraging.  I've had a used A14810S up the last two summers
and was quite excited to work up to EM19 and 29 and down to EM31.  I
figured with 100 W from the 746Pro, not much of an antenna at nearly
30', fed with LMR400 (and not even N connectors!), that 500 km was
pretty awesome.

Until last Friday night.  I never ever thought I'd work over 2000 km
with my set up or work a couple VE3s.  Now I have 10 states worked on
2!  38 more to go!  :-)





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