Posted: 6/8/2013 7:10:45 AM EDT
| Anyone on here close? I sure am not. I've worked 15 and have 13 confirmed. Wonder how the contest will change it though. |
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I was driving to an IPSC pistol match about 3 years ago
cruzing down the interstate, I dropped my TARHEEL II to 6 meters 6 was WFO and I was in a rural area, I told a ham my location on the highway, and he told me my grid square suddenly I had a big pile-up 
I was running about 70mph and didn't even try to log, but I guess it was an uncommon grid, I felt like I was the DX LOL |
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I was driving to an IPSC pistol match about 3 years ago cruzing down the interstate, I dropped my TARHEEL II to 6 meters 6 was WFO and I was in a rural area, I told a ham my location on the highway, and he told me my grid square suddenly I had a big pile-up
I was running about 70mph and didn't even try to log, but I guess it was an uncommon grid, I felt like I was the DX LOL Cool story. There are 4 big guns in my grid. Legal limit and phased stacked yagis and all. EN-71 will never generate a pile up. |
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Quoted: No, but EN75, EN76, EN85 and EN 86 will. I'll be there again in July. Hope to get some operating time in. Quoted: I was driving to an IPSC pistol match about 3 years ago cruzing down the interstate, I dropped my TARHEEL II to 6 meters 6 was WFO and I was in a rural area, I told a ham my location on the highway, and he told me my grid square suddenly I had a big pile-up I was running about 70mph and didn't even try to log, but I guess it was an uncommon grid, I felt like I was the DX LOL Cool story. There are 4 big guns in my grid. Legal limit and phased stacked yagis and all. EN-71 will never generate a pile up.  Will be running either 100 or 200 watts into a stacked pair of loops. Power depends on the rig I use. Pictured are the 2 meter loops. I have them for 6, 2, and 70cm  I will be taking the Jeep instead of the truck. I will also have a 2 element buddipole beam for stationary use. |
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Ha, ha. I just made my first 6m contact.
I did it by tuning my 10m antenna with the tuner in my rig. Talked to a gentleman all the way over on the other side of Fort Worth.
But like we used to say in the Navy...a kill is a kill.  Cool! The bands are dead as hell here. Absolutely nothing outside of IN is workable. Not even K9CT in IL. |
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I can hear a few stations in Mexico, but the QSB is so bad, that I don't think I work them. They are pretty strong for 10 or 15 seconds, and then they are gone for 30 seconds to a minute. Just not a good day. THat's 6m every day. I really respect the guys who have serious numbers on the band. Even a great antenna array doesn't guarantee good results. |
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OTOH, I can build a 6m dipole pretty quickly....... I'm closing in on VUCC (worked, not confirmed) on 6 with something like 8 countries, all worked via a dipole I made from parts from a broken TV antenna at about 25' up during the handful of contests each year for the last 3 years or so. When E skip is open on 6 it tends to be OPEN. If you have the space try to put up a pair of dipoles at right angles that you can switch between, off the ends of a dipole signal is pretty much nonexistent. So a pair of dipoles so you can switch between N-S and E-W coverage is pretty handy. |
