[SixClub] 6M must be open

[peter oesterle]

  Channel  2  is  gone  from  Baltimore !







> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:19:37 -0600
> From: donroden at hiwaay.net
> To: sixclub at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SixClub] 6M must be open
> 
> 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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