[SixClub] Understanding SIX [Was: Grids]

[Pete]

Totally, totally, totally agree.
-Pete / NL7XM

<50MHz at rogerhalstead.com> wrote:
> If the band isn't open, it really doesn't mater how high the antenna or 
> how much power you run except for extended ground wave and Aurora. Power plus antenna gain is important when working aurora where you are working stations (distorted CW signals or SSB that is almost impossible to understand) that are the same strength as the background noise.  All you hear is a change in the noise. When signals are that weak and distorted, power and antennas become very important.
> 
> The legal limit and a 7L Yagi at 115 feet do not open the band! <:-)) 
> Even a CY156 running full bore would not open the band, but it would 
> certainly find the weak spots in the antenna system. <:-)) OTOH under 
> poor conditions the legal limit and a big antenna do make a tremendous 
> difference as they do in a "pile up", but poor conditions are far 
> different than a closed band.  I don't know any one who runs a so called 
> Kalifornia Killowatt on six, but it would take one to work much over 150 
> miles when the band isn't open.
> 73 Roger (K8RI)