[SixClub] Back on the air...sorta.

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

Six Club has been pretty quiet ...  kinda like Six.

Yes, I miss my six element at 140 feet.

Currently, all I have for six is a roof mounted squalo.

I missed the "BIG ONE" .... Cycle 19 was just before I was licensed, but I did
get to see all of the exotic qsl cards that my mentor collected using a
simple Layafette 20 watt am transceiver and a three element on a 20  
foot push-up mast.... rotated by hand.

He said six was open 24 hours a day.   He would get up around 3am and  
start working Europe and Africa until he had to go to work every day.

Asia, South Pacific .... he had quiet a collection ... all on 50.400 AM
crystal controlled.

Wonder what it would have been like if he had some of the more modern SSB
gear running 100 plus watts and vfo control ?    Ten Meters was hot too.

I'll be retired soon and I sure would like to see just a small portion  
of that kind of world-wide propagation during the next sunspot cycle.

Don W4DNR





Quoting Roger on six <50MHz at rogerhalstead.com>:

> Well, I'm back on the air, but with a minimal setup.

<SNIP >

>
> I do miss those days where six was open world wide and you could  
> have all continents in a single conversation <sigh>
>
> 73, Roger (K8RI) EN73