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Reply To: | Mike Duke, K5XU |
Date: | Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:43:02 -0600 |
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He was on 50.140 for about an hour and a half this afternoon.
I think it was just a staff person who happened to discover that 6
meters was open, and then created a huge pile up.
Nothing was said about him being there any other time over the
weekend.
It was the actual W1AW station in Newington, not a portable operating
from elsewhere.
If you want to get on 6 meters, a dipole is only just over 9 feet
long. And for E skip conditions, the antenna doesn't need to be
very high.
You could easily build one from wire, or from almost any scrapped
television or CB antenna aluminum.
My first 6 meter contacts, which were made with a 15 watt (input)
Knight kit
AM rig, were made using a dipole that was
only 15 feet above ground. I later switched to a borrowed 3 element
beam that was installed in the same place, and worked 35 states with
that arrangement.
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