Are you sure your rig is working on 6 meters?  Calling frequencies were about 50.075 to 50.100 for CW and above 50.125 for SSB.  I wasn't on all the time, and by 8 PM Sunday I only had two grid squares.  But when I got back on the air at that time, we had some sporadic-E, and I worked from the DC area into Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and a couple of more states, for 15 more grids.  The E layer was quite sporadic this time.  I don't have a 6-meter antenna, but use my tri-band beam at 60 feet, which is probably equivalent to a dipole.
-- Lloyd, W3IUU


-----Original Message-----
>From: Albert Sanchez <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jun 15, 2014 10:59 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Not Quite a Washout on 6 Meters, But Nothing Much to Brag About
>
>Hi Mike
>Never had any opening at all here in NC, at least I figured out how to use 
>the DVR on my '590.
>Albert, WA7FXB
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 10:03 PM
>Subject: Not Quite a Washout on 6 Meters, But Nothing Much to Brag About
>
>
>> The band opened for about 2 hours this afternoon.
>>
>> I managed 27 contacts, 18 of which were on CW.
>>
>> I basically worked everything I could hear.
>>
>> The highlight was a contact with WA0CSL in North Dakota.
>>
>> Mary has been on 6 meters for a very long time.
>>
>> My first time to talk with her was when I was running a Knight Kit
>> TR106 AM rig that I bought used in 1975.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>