[SixClub] Good News for 6-Meter Antennas

[Steven Coles]

Around here houses on hill tops start at $500,000. Happily, they're only
necessary to those who spend their ways to high contest scores. An
amateur radio operator feeding 50 watts to a single homemade 3-element
yagi at 25' can contact plenty of locals (when they're on the air) and
QSO places 600 to 1200 miles away during sporadic-E events. That was a
more or less standard 6-meter station in the 1960s (to the extent that
“standard” could be applied to 6-meter equipment in those days.)

73,

Steven, KD7YTE

On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 10:49 +0000, 6n2mtrham at comcast.net wrote:
> The very best advice anyone can give, "MOVE", yes move to a house on the highest hill, put up three 180 foot towers, and on six, get four 11el M2 antennas. Then and only then will you be happy.
> 
> In the mean time, a rotatable dipole is better than a halo or a squalo. Put a reflector element behind the dipole that will give you 3 db more gain. If you can't do that, a loop will work, remember not to shield it with metal, these antennas work better out in the open.
> 
> --
> Jerry, W9FS,  Club # 66
> South Bend, IN. EN61UP
> ex W9FTI, W4RXU, K9PFV, DL5GI
> www.w9fs.com
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Howard Bingham <howardb at hal-pc.org>
> > Maybe some of the more experienced among us at modeling antennas, could 
> > give some pointers to the few of us who are apartment or condo dwellers.
> > 
> > Howard Bingham
> > KE5APJ
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Steven Coles wrote:
> > 
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > 50 MHz is the lowest-frequency amateur radio band for which an indoor
> > > Moxon antenna can be used in both horizontal and vertical polarizations.
> > > Once analog VHF TV disappears so will low-end VHF TV receivers. That
> > > will make TVI from 6 meters almost non-existent.
> > > 
> > > Steven,
> > > 
> > > KD7YTE
> > > 
> > --
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