[SixClub] Understanding SIX [Was: Grids]

[Larry Brown]

You nailed it Doc!  Us little guys (100 watts max and a home-brew dipole,halo or Moxon) have to wait for the openings to come to us. Guys like W8IF up in Ohio just crank it up and wake up the area they want. On another note....you guys keep talking all this "digital" stuff,you're gonna force me to buy another computer and find out what the fuss is about!

Larry
kg4zar
EM78hp


On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:02 PM, doc at kd4e.com wrote:

> Unless you have a big tower, big beam (preferably stacked beams),
> a tower-mount RX pre-amp, and a big amplifier (preferably full-legal)
> you are at the mercy of generally-unpredictable propagation.
> 
> The big-guns can almost create their own big-gun to big-gun prop!
> (Oh, are we allowed to say "big-gun" any more?  Sorry, my bad.)
> 
> This means that 6M is either open or not, alive or not ... well,
> regionally, that is.
> 
> There may be an East-West opening, a North-South opening, and a
> whole lot of other regional and directional openings ... and
> the opening will often move, making it even more challenging!
> 
> 6M digital modes appear to be somewhat rare and in need of a lot
> of promotion and perhaps some networking so that digital modes
> are in-use during the leading and trailing edges of band openings
> where SSB is unusable.
> 
> Perhaps if there were a system of regular local digital NETS then
> 6M ops would be set up and ready to observe and pounce on new
> regional openings.
> 
>> I understand and can read a band chart..... what I was really asking,
>> where might anybody on this list be congregating.  That was the main
>> intention of the message. :)
>> 
>> So far as I type this, I only have 3 contacts.  6 meters is quiet as
>> hell. So is 2m (ssb and fm simplex portions) and also 70cm (ssb and
>> fm simplex portions.)   As quiet as a ghost town around here in
>> Michigan.
>> 
>> Ryan KB8RCR
> 
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