Subj : CQ CQ
To   : Spaceman Spiff
From : W8ZZU
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 12:33 am

  Re: CQ CQ
  By: Spaceman Spiff to All on Wed Jan 05 2005 03:46 pm

 > CQ CQ......must be a bad solar flare...the band is dead....
 > CQ CQ....
 > Anyone working 6 meters?
 > WOndering what the farthest contact anyne has made on that band?

about 4 or 5 days ago I worked some Aurora on 6 meters into South Dakota,
right on the border of Montana.  I am in EN82 in Michigan.  I was running 100
Watts on my Icom 746Pro running a Par Omni loop at 12 feet.  That is about the
farthest I have worked..   Over the summer I worked mobile (vertical) into
Denver, CO from EN82.  I was running 100 watts on 50.125 on my Yaesu FT-897
into a Cushcraft 1/2 wave vertical.  The Denver grid is exactly south of the
South Dakota grid, so thats the farthest west I have ever worked.  I have
worked alot of Florida and Texas mobile from EN82.  Not to shabby for being
verticaly polarized on SSB and mobile!  Thats why I love 6, when the band is
open, you can work anyone with a paperclip..  :)

Your in CA right?   Maybe you will be my long awaited CA 6 Meter contact
without the use of beams (I don't believe in them for 6 Meters)


Jason - Whiskey Eight Zulu Zulu Uniform




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