6 metres

[w8cbc]

The Spring Sprint is on this evening, 2300-0300 GMT.

I have the dipole up as A3, with my usual end-fed wires for A1 and A2. I'm looking for that second contact! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

50125U and 50090C (the SKCC freq) are where I'll be desperately trying to get something, anything, going with the 551D.

[N5BO]

I hope some magic brews up for 6 meters this evening.

[WA5KRP]

WOW! Thanks for the headzup!



WA5KRP
Texas

[w4rot]

Hope it opens .... a bunch of FM06's wil be out there.
I for one.
GL to all
Trying to do Volta rtty, MAQP, and mow the lawn.
Should be fun.
JackofalltradesMasterofnone,NC
w4rot

[VE3EN]

May the Es be with us.. nice scatter this morning, light Es. Nothing solid though.. perhaps it will open.

73 and GL, Kevin
VE3GIB
www.ve3gib.com

[ai4ep]

I will try to be there

AI4EP EM 64 http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[N5BO]

Quote[/b] (ai4ep @ May 13 2006,10:34)]I will try to be there

AI4EP # #EM 64 # # # # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Look south! I may be able to work you on tropo.

[ai4ep]

n4ion
ks4b
n4jdb

in less than 5 minutes

[w8cbc]

All I heard so far was someone in a neighbouring grid square (em89), half an hour before it started. Couldn't reach him before he disappeared. So I went outside and tried to relocate the dipole; I've just got it back to where it was as I couldn't get a match on the darn thing.

I heard some stuff this early afternoon that may have been scatter.

Still trying...

[ai4ep]

50.127

wb4vhf 7;10 pm cst

also copied a station ( rover mobile ) near Iuka, Mississippi at highest point in the state of Mississippi , did not get his call...

keep trying

all I have is 3 element cushcraft beam horizontal at 42 feet & 100 watt model 746 ICOM radio...no big gun, but I do try.

AI4EP (Robert)

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[w5lda]

Quote[/b] (ai4ep @ May 13 2006,10:34)]I will try to be there

AI4EP # #EM 64 # # # # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Robert

I didnt know your cb did 6 meters,,,hehehe http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[ai4ep]

shhh do not tell any one...our BIG secret.

what ever you do...dont post it on the internet or the whole world will know.

( whisper ) have to keep this real quiet...ok ? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blues.gif

[w8cbc]

Well, I gave up on the dipole (it's on the balcony ceiling - I suspected that it was surrounded by metal) and switched to A2 - the 90-ft. wire. Heard someone in EM79 calling and I called back, hoping that at least something worked. I got through though with a rather poor signal. We chewed the old socks awhile at 50135U and I decided to run out and switch back to the dipole to see if it was getting out at all. Ah, yes - MUCH better than the wire, 5 S units' worth (8 S units on RX). So it does work properly. I just haven't been getting through in general.

Am hearing nothing else. Those earlier hints of propagation have gone away. I'm still trying though.

Some notes on the dipole. I know you guys are laughing at me. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Anyway. I cut it for 51 MC as a compromise and came out fairly close - a perfect match at 50.8. Well, I'd not considered that the things are fairly sharp. SWR 3:1 at 50125 kc and worse at both 50090 and 52525. So, I lengthened it a few inches on both ends. Resonance went from 50800 to 50700 kc. I then lengthened it a foot on each end. That brought it to 50600 kc, still rather badly mismatched at 50125. I was out of room then so I added two ft. of wire to each end, the last ft. on each pointing down. That got it to 50400 kc, 2:1 at 50125, tolerable at 50090 and forget about FM simplex.

Since the thing is a bit under 10 ft. total when resonant at 50800, I'm more than a little mystified that adding another 4 ft. (40%!) will only bring it down by 400 kc.

Proximity to junk in the ceiling / walls?

---edit---

Add another contact, with a fellow in EM89. Two today, wheee! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[ai4ep]

try 50.140 usb at 9;45 pm cst...( about 13 minutes away )...

AI4EP (Robert) http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[w8cbc]

There's a bad heterodyne here at '140, some or other device in another apartment. '145?

I can't hear too well in any event. I heard the two locals working other stations just fine but I couldn't hear the other stations at all.

---edit---

Anyway, I gave '145 a whirl. Nuthin' heard except a brief off-frequency quack about half a minute or so after I quit polluting that part of the spectrum.

[ai4ep]

I didnt hear any one 50.140 from 9;40 ---10;00 pm cst, but I called quite a few times.

No big deal.

[w8cbc]

You did a whole lot better than I did!

80 watts bangin' into the walls, me.

[ai4ep]

4 contacts without really trying ( sitting in front of the rig more than 5 minutes total ), with the RF output turned down to about 40 - 50 watts.

hmmm...not bad at all.

Imagine if I had actually tried...?
( yep, might have made 5 instead of 4 )

AI4EP (Robert) ;)