Six-meter openings, especially in the summer, are likely to be sporadic-E, 
like similar openings on 10.  Often your signal is refracting from a cloud 
in the E layer a few hundred miles away, which is only a couple hundred 
miles across.  So summer openings are often over rather small areas of the 
country.  Other times, the ionized gas clouds become much larger, or 
numerous enough that two of them line up such that your signal can make two 
or more hops (this is how the east coast sometimes works the west coast.) 
It helps to have a beam and to work CW instead of SSB.  But when the band is 
open, people work each other on CW, SSB, FM and other modes.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Gammon
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:26 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: six meters

Hmmh, just listened and called CQ there maybe 15 minutes ago and didn't hear
anyone around or plus or minus 100 KHZ.  Jim WA6EKS


-----Original Message----- 
From: Albert Sanchez
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:24 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: six meters

SSB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: six meters


> Was that CW, SSB, Fm, or Am? Jim WA6EKS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Albert Sanchez <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:45:42 -0400
> Subject: six meters
>
> Hi All
> Just worked IL and KS on six meters! What Fun!
> Albert S., WA7FXB
> FM15