Dave, The 6 Meter band can be VERY selective as to who is favored with the propagation required to work DX. You must know to what area the DX is working. Keep and eye on the 'www.vhfdx.net' website and its DX-Sherlock application to see what regions are working each other. If others in your region are working DX and you are not hearing it, keep listening. Don't be surprised if suddenly you begin to hear DX. Don't expect to just turn on your K3 and hear the DX that others are working, although that does happen at times during a widespread opening.
So, what does it take to work DX on 50 MHz? Well, I presently am using a barefoot K3 and a yagi on my back porch, only 20 feet high. From my VA QTH (FM18ap), in the direction of SE thru SW the yagi looks into the house. In all other directions, including Europe and the West Coast the yagi look into 40 to 50 ft high trees. You would thing that with this antennas system I'd have a tough time working DX. Not so! Making QSOs is quite easy...when the band opens up. Since July 1, over 270 QSOs have been entered into the K1HTV log book, almost half of them on CW. Since the first of June, 44 DX countries have been worked, 27 of them since July 1st. Countries worked on 6 Meters with the low yagi and K3 include 9A, 9H, 9Y, C5, C6, CN, CO, CT, CT3,CU, E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EI, F, FG, FM, FS, G, GD, GJ, HA, HI, I, J3, J6, J8, KP2, KP4, LA, OX, P4, PJ2, S5, TF, V4, VE, VP2M, VP5, VP9, W, XE and YN. You will find that being up in FN42 you should be able to work much more Europe DX than down here in VA, and probably the same amount of DX to the south. Just be patient. If you are at you K3 when the band opens up there you'll soon be entering DX QSOs into the N1IX log. Have fun with your K3 on the magic Band! 73, Rich - K1HTV http:www.k1htv.us = = = Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:53:44 -0400 From: "David leDuc" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 6M CW To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <001a01cb1d12$a6627bc0$f32773...@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I know this is not a 6 meter discussion group but I do have a K3. I am hearing a lot of people on 6 meters working DX which I cannot hear, also calling CQDX. I am wondering what kind of antennas you are using? I am using a 3 element SteppIr and am in FN42 Dave N1IX ______________________________________________________________ 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
