[SixClub] Understanding SIX [Was: Grids]

[John Geiger]

With WSJT, you can make QSOs about any time off of random meteors.  100 
watts and a 3 element yagi will make MS possible round the clock. You can do 
it with less, but it is more difficult.

73s John AA5JG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <doc at kd4e.com>
To: "World Wide Six Meter Club" <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: [SixClub] Understanding SIX [Was: Grids]


> 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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>
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