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Thanks, Mike.
I may just try to cobble something together here if 6 opens up again over
the next ffew days.
I'm on holiday break from the University, and do have some time to play
radio.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: W1AW on 6 Meters
> 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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