Hi.

I haven't, as yet, ventured onto this band, for a couple of reasons.  For 
one, none of my radios are set up to go on the band unless I completely 
open them up.  Also, it is difficult to accurately measure my power output 
on USB with the metering that I have, so it would be hard to pick the 
appropriate level for the transmitter.  The final problem is that my yard 
is small enough that it is pretty full of antennas already.  My 
understanding is that I would need to use a resonant antenna on 60 meters 
because the only mode of operation allowed on the band is USB, and that 
even inserting a low power carrier for a couple seconds to adjust an 
antenna tuner would constitute a violation of the rules.

For these reasons, I have opted to not use this band.  I think, if it were 
not for this last restriction, that it would be fairly easy to load a G5RV 
on this band, which would allow me to use my existing antennas.  Ignoring 
the open wire matching section, the wire elements are just a little less 
than five eights of a wavelength, which I suspect would put the load in the 
ball park where most tuners would handle it.

Anyway, I have no plans to put anything on this band anytime in the 
forseeable future.

73, de Lou K2LKK



Louis Kim Kline
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