[SixClub] 6M must be open

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

Good news is that six meters won't produce the recognizable "monkey  
chatter" TVI on digital TVs .... just a freezing or an occasional  
dropout.

Don WA4NPL

Quoting "Roger (K8RI)" <50MHz at rogerhalstead.com>:

>
>
> kd4e wrote:
>> Not all analog stations are gone, just most of them.
>>
> And there are high power digital on ch 2 here in the states. Ch 2
> moved from Detroit to Kalamazoo, but they are active. There are also
> other low VHF here in Michigan. Our so called local channels in the
> Saginaw, Midland area are all UHF, but with my antennas at 90 plus feet,
> my local area is a lot larger than most.
>
> Although stations are migrating from low VHF to high VHF, Digital did
> not all go to UHF. IIRC there are still 20 some Ch 2's in the US let
> alone low VHF as a whole.
>> Certain "repeaters" into more remote areas and low
>> power special purpose stations we allowed to stay on
>> analog.
>>
>> I would think that were 6M open the beacons would be
>> showing up.
>>
>> Does anyone have a system of online receivers that
>> monitors the beacons and graphically displays them
>> by repeater location and monitoring receiver location?
>>
>> If not that would be a really valuable resource.
>>
>> I could probably put a 6M and 10M receiver online and
>> hook it to the Internet to feed such monitoring network.
>>
>> Note: The themagicband at yahoogroups.co.uk is a UK-based
>> list, so not everyone here is USA-centered. The other
>> list World Wide Six Meter Club <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
>> is USA-based, though there are members who are not in the
>> USA. The FM-focused list AR52MHZ at yahoogroups.com I
>> believe is also US-based but international in membership.
>>
>>
>>
>>> How are you picking up stations if there all gone?
>>> As far as I knew all the stations have cleared off to go digital.
>>> Am I missing something?
>>>
> Yup, There was a lot of channel shuffling, but digital is not just UHF.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (Please do not cross post between groups)
>>> As far as a 6M opening I received no alerts at all today.
>>>
>>> James
>>> KB7TBT
>>> www.kb7tbt.com
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm picking up TV stations all over two states, but there's not
>>>> a soul on 6M! No spots on the DX cluster either! Man, it's
>>>> bad to be the only guy on the air when the band is open!
>>>> I'm in South Carolina. Temps are supposed to be near 70
>>>> tomorrow, so I bet it's going to be wide open tomorrow too!
>>>>
>>>> 73, -Web (AJ4VM)
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
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