6M antennas that are adequate for EME are a problem. It's a lot of work and transportation problems for a few contacts, even fewer than 160M.
73, doug On 13-Feb-11 12:25, Lance Collister wrote: > On 2/13/2011 4:24 PM, Tony Estep wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Lance Collister<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It certainly is a shame to go to such a rare place, with the convenient >>> capabilities of the K3, and not even trying to get on 6m JT65A ... >> >> =========== >> Well, their (earthbound) 6M policy is at: >> >> http://s9dx.hkmann.de/?Magic_Band >> >> Tony KT0NY > > Hi Tony, > > Yes, I know....that is probably why most of the HF DXpeditions over the last > number of years have not had any success on 6m :-( I made 26,000,000 miles's > worth of contacts on 6m on my last DXpedition to the South Pacific last fall. > Of > course, I used my K3 and 6m was not an "afterthought" and I certainly > encouraged > people to watch for my CQ's. By comparison, my approach was certainly not > "Please > don't pester us with questions for tries on 6m." ;-) > > Thank goodness there are SOME HFers interested in working 6m ;-) I worked the > first 6m station from PJ2 a couple weeks ago when PJ2/W8WTS got on JT65A mode > during his moonset with a 5 element yagi and 300w. > > Looking forward to some more new DXCC on 6m this spring ;-) Up to 164 now and > have been adding a new DXCC every month for the last several years. Thanks > to all > those who have shown an interest in demonstrating what CAN be done on that > band! > > GL and VY 73, Lance ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
