Well, I've "only" been licensed since 1958 and although I was using CW and SSB
in the early 60s on 2M and working MS and EME in the 70s, I too never set foot
on 6-meters until 2009. On Field Day (operating from home) I tried the K3 on
six. Of course, it's stone deaf so I cobbled up a preamp from an old broadband
Avantek amplifier, and hooked up my 40/80 meter wire dipole, fed with almost
200' of RG8. The coax loss was my "matching network" since I don't have the ATU.
There was a local yokel club operating from a nearby mountain cluttering up
50.125 and there was some Es ongoing. I tuned around a bit and heard a CW CQ on
50.123 under the splatter from the local on SSB. It was Jl8GFB. I called and
worked him at 0014Z. At 0122Z I heard another CQ on 50.096 and worked JA7WSZ.
So the band was open to JA for more than an hour. I worked 43 stations and
never heard another station work the JAs.
Wes N7WS
On 5/31/2014 8:18 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
Been licensed 61 years, made my first ... and only ever ... 6m QSO about 4
years ago, loading my tri-bander with the K3/KAT3 ... he was a KH6.
There is the electromagnetic physics of antennas, which can be overly precise,
and then there is the reality -- a lot works that actually shouldn't have.
The "Last Bastion of Ham Homebrew." :-)
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org
I'm in Northern California
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