[SixClub] 6m Tropo

Wed Apr 14 21:03:54 EDT 2010

Hi doc:

Thanks for the reply.

OK - I am signed up for reflectors galore so let me see if I can change the world!
I'll post tropo openings this Spring and Summer and see if I can attract some interest. 

I have an interesting perspective. I am a long-time TV FM DXer and have been in broadcast engineering since 1968.
Tropo has always been a huge thing for me. I live just north of NYC and sometimes reach all the way down the
Atlantic seaboard to NC, SC and beyond even with DTV. I also have a place in Michigan and the summers provide the most amazing tropo you ever want to experience. 2m repeaters don't often use PLs out there - and when you key up the local repeater you'll also key up 12 more repeaters on the same pair within 500 miles of where you are. It's amazing! 

I also often use NOAA wetaheradio stations as propagation beacons. Very useful!

I'll get on the Internet lists and advertise that I am 'screaming for squares.' 
(It's a new game show that I host on 6 meters.)

I like reviving discarded fourth-owner disgruntled unloved equipment to do amazing things. 
An 80 milliwatt QSO on CW is my idea of a party. (I don't get out much.)
My well-loved Yaesu FT-690RII should give you an idea.
I'm using it with it's optional 10 watt linear.
I began my career on 6m using a large Japanese HT that offered CW.
With just a whip antenna, I was working stations like crazy. Magic band, indeed!

Thanks again for the suggestion - a very good one!

Karl Zuk  N2KZ

> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:41:30 -0500
> From: doc at kd4e.com
> To: sixclub at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SixClub] 6m Tropo
> 
> Do the dx-spotting services send out notices of
> 6M tropo?
> 
> I don't recall.
> 
> I have my DX-70TH on a too-low delta loop too
> close to a metal building and a TV antenna ...
> temporary problem ... but sure would try to
> listen if home and aware of any kind of opening.
> 
> > I am working towards a VUCC using only a 10 watt Yaesu
> > FT-690RII in FN31 in New York, USA. I see a great deal of
> > excitement when Es or F2 comes in. When we have huge
> > tropo. lifts I often can not raise one station. Why do 6m
> > ops disregard tropo? Is it because they find better 
> > signal strengths on 2m and 70cm? I need more grid squares
> > and tropo activity would certainly help. Thanks for
> > listening! Comments welcomed. Karl Zuk N2KZ
> 
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> .Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
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