[SixClub] 6m e season

Tue Aug 18 13:59:55 EDT 2009

I only have one stepdaughter and she gets a fair amount from her biological in FLA so we don't have to pay all her expenses. She just turned 15 and can eat like horse but still stays thin. Ah youth!!!

I just finished (well almost finished) cleaning out the shack and selling off about 20 years worth of excess gear that was just sitting around collecting the proverbial dust. I almost have the money to go to King Conversions for a new toy. Better do it quick before my wife realizes I have a wad of money that isn't earmarked for bills, etc.

Really like the new (well used but like new) TS-2000X that I recently acquired. Nice to have a little DSP processing for 6M. And the newly installed 6M7JHV yagi has really increased the gain over my old Cushcraft A505S. But now I need to put up a set of stacked loops to listen around with as the 6M7 has a really narrow beamwidth and I could miss things.

73
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Gene Brewer, W5DQ 
Ridgecrest, CA 
ex-WN5UZU / WB5UZU / KI6LO 
ARRL Life Member, DXCC, WAS, WAC 
10-10 #24965, 6 Club #2325, SMIRK #6900, 
NCDXF, QWCA #31839 First Licensed 1976

-------------- Original message from "Richard J. Fiero II W5TFW" <joeyw5tfw at gmail.com>: -------------- 

> Gene, 
> 
> I am right there with you ! IF I can stop my children from taking all my 
> money one day I hope to have an SB 220 on 6 meters also ! 
> 
> Joey 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene - W5DQ" 
> To: "World Wide Six Meter Club" 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:36 PM 
> Subject: Re: [SixClub] 6m e season 
> 
> 
> > While I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, it was a decent Es 
> > season out here in California too. We didn't have too many openings into 
> > Europe from here :) but had lots of multi hops across the US to the East 
> > Coast and a few to the Carribean. Worked about 25 new grids and 3 new 
> > countries (Cuba, Guatemala and Hawaii) this season. Increased my work grid 
> > count to over 200 and submitted 121 cards to obtain my first VUCC 6M 
> > award. 
> > 
> > Until recently, I was using an old "FT-726R /Tentec 1209 xvtr/TE Sys 170W 
> > brick/modified Cushcraft 5 element yagi" kludged setup with about 125 
> > watts out to the antenna. Replaced all that with a TS-2000X and a M2 
> > 6M7JHV 7el. Next thing planned is to get a King Conversion 6M SB-220 to 
> > have a kilowatt plus output. Plan is to have a really decent 6M station 
> > and BIG signal next season. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Gene Brewer, W5DQ 
> > Ridgecrest, CA 
> > ex-WN5UZU / WB5UZU / KI6LO 
> > ARRL Life Member, DXCC, WAS, WAC 
> > 10-10 #24965, 6 Club #2325, SMIRK #6900, 
> > NCDXF, QWCA #31839 First Licensed 1976 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message from "Terry Greenwood" 
> > : -------------- 
> > 
> > Hi Guys now that the E season on 6m is just about over for this summer I 
> > was wondering how everyone did during this years 6M E season?Just curious 
> > on how much DX you worked or how many new grids you got during the 
> > summer.Do you have a 
> >> high light contact or rare DX that you might have worked? Here in EN82 
> >> the E Season got off to a slow start but by the end of may and early June 
> >> the band opened almost every day.One of the better openings occurred on 
> >> June 26, the band opened to the UK big time, it reminded me of the F2 
> >> Prop I worked during cycle 23 peak !! Their where stations all up and 
> >> down the band from across the big pond. One of my high light contacts was 
> >> working ZB3B I've been trying to work him for the last couple of years 
> >> now and finally got him in 
> >> the log this summer. Another good contact was working Greenland OX3KQ on 
> >> june23.Well here is my 
> >> totals for this year on 6m. 
> >> 21 new grids 
> >> 3 new countries 
> >> 32 different countries 
> >> I re worked 3 grids I still need. 
> >> I haven't worked that many new grids in years I usually get around 10 or 
> >> 12 new 
> >> ones a E Season,so getting 21 new ones was great, that put me at 599 
> >> grids 
> >> worked on 6m. 
> >> I have a very small station on 6m I run a 100w into a 4 element yagi@ 
> >> 48ft.All 
> >> my contacts are on ssb I don't do CW yet !! 
> >> 73 Terry 
> >> VE3TMG 
> >> GRID EN82 
> >> 
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