[SixClub] Starting out on SIX

[K8RI on 50MHz]

I should add that a couple years back when we had the really good, world
wide band openings, I worked a Honduran station who had just set up his rig
and was listening.  He finally decided to give a call even with his
"primitive" set up.

Strong, he wasn't but I was his first contact on 6.

Oh, yah... His station was a 10 watt transceiver sitting on the desk with a
piece of wire  about a quarter wave long  laying across the desk and stuck
into the SO239

Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
www.rogerhalstead.com

> Yeap! I started on 6 Meters back in 1965, not much luck until I got a wide
> spaced 6 ele beam at 40 feet. Then added an old Swan KW amp. If I heard
it,
> I worked it. Was fun from CA. Things are so much better here in the East.
I
> am running 100 watts into a 3 ele at 15 feet, and working many states and
> grids. Grids weren't even heard of then, 1960s. Wait till I get my beam up
> to 40 feet with 250 watts! Now thinking 5 elements!
>
> At 10:20 PM 1/28/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >The only way to go: Pushing a lot of power into big antenna way up high.
> >Course you need the budgett to do that. So far I installed the tower and
> >antenna myself, but am going to make do, at least for a while, with 100
> >watts.
> >
> >Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
> >N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
> >www.rogerhalstead.com
>
>
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