[SixClub] Good News for 6-Meter Antennas

[Roger (K8RI)]

Steven Coles wrote:
> 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
>   
Lordy! I was first licensed in 61. No one out there in the flat land 
farming country had 30 foot high antennas except me. Every one else 
operating 6 and 2 had 60 to near 100 footers. Even my 160 droopy dipole 
was only 40 foot at the highest. From somewhere around the late 60's or 
early 70's, up until 1980 I was running 5 and 6 L KLMs on 20 and 15  and 
a 7L Wilson on 10 which again were only 40' high.  The booms were longer 
than the towers were tall. <:-))

However I should add that a few years back from this location I worked a 
station in Honduras who was testing a rig on "the bench". His antenna 
was a short piece of wire stuck in the SO-239 and laying on the bench.  
He wasn't strong, but we were able to hold a QSO of more than just 
exchanging signal reports. <:-))  I think he was more surprised when I 
came back to his test than I was when I found out what he was using.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> “standard” could be applied to 6-meter equipment in those days.)
>
> 73,
>
> Steven, KD7YTE