[SixClub] 6m alive earlier tonight in EL 29

[Mike Andrews W5EGO]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:50:22AM -0700, Michael McFatridge wrote:
> I had better luck here in el29. I woked a bunch of
> stations on Arizona and Colorado. I had to play with
> my new Kenwood TS-2000. I'll be glad when I get out of
> this wheelchair.Going back to Dr. today to see if more
> surgery is required on my foot. . Mike N5TYW

Just before 2000 local last night (0300Z Friday Zulu) I heard and 
worked a gent in DM02 from EM15. That tells me that my feedline's not
the problem; I had thought that it was attenuating the weak sigs too
much[1], but if it had been, then neither of us would have heaard the
other last night. Gotta build that Cebik interrupted current loop for 
6m; friends are having the most marvelous results with it. 

[1]  Though not as much as the National Weather Service's feedline in 
     their new building here in Norman. The idiot architect put the 
     radio room in the *center* of the building, 40 feet under the 
     roof and about 200 feet back from the exterior wall where the 
     antennas are mounted. The cable raceway length from the radio 
     room to the antenna mounting structure is just under 400 feet.
     Even with LMR-600, they get something like 96% attenuation at 
     70 cm., and about 85-90% at 2 meters. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin