[BULK] - Re: [SixClub] Starting out on SIX

[Steve Katz]

N1OFZ's comments were right on.

I'd much prefer to have a $2000 antenna system on six with any old crappy
transceiver than the world's greatest equipment and a dipole or loop...no
comparison.  Where the rubber meets the road, so to speak, the difference
between the stations who make the incredible contacts on six and the ones
who don't comes from antenna systems and operator skill; station equipment
hardly enters into the formula.  -WB2WIK/6

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of
enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	N1OFZ [SMTP:n1ofz@arrl.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:22 AM
> To:	sixclub@mailman.qth.net
> Subject:	[BULK] - Re: [SixClub] Starting out on SIX
> 
> I think that your antenna is probably the most important part of your 
> station.  If you drop all your money into an expensive 
> transverter/receiver combo and then string a dipole up in your yard you 
> will probably be disappointed.  Until a few weeks ago i used a 6m-70cm 
> log periodic with forward gain of 6.5 dBi on 6m.  I switched to a 6m 5 
> el beam with forward gain of 10.5.  I made almost as many Q's in the 
> Jan VHF contest as I did in the June contest!  There was a huge 
> difference in what I could hear (non prop enhanced).  If a 706 fits in 
> your budget get it, but get a good preamp and a decent antenna and you 
> will not be sorry.
> 
> In the end, all aspects of the station are important and every 
> suggestion you get will be a good one.  The problem is that if you take 
> everyones advice by the time you are done your 6m station will have 
> cost $5000.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Dana  N1OFZ
> 
> 
> On Jan 28, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Dennis Kaylor wrote:
> 
> > so you would rather have high power and an poorer quality reciever ?
> > i think a 2 meter transverter into my 756Pro would hear a hell of a 
> > lot better than any of these new 100 watt all in one rigs i know the 
> > 706 doesnt hear nearly as well as the pro and if you cant hear them 
> > you cant work them no matter how much power your running
> 
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