The A503S does a good job. Like your tribander, my log periodic resonated on
6m as well, but the 3 el Cushcraft was a big improvement in performance - if
you're serious about getting on 6m you should get a decent antenna. Now my
Steppir does a pretty fair job on 6m so I took the A503S down.
The problem is more with 6 meters. Some call it the Magic Band and some call
it the Tragic Band. Seems like all the band openings happen when I'm at
work. In any case I have had a number of CW, SSB, and PSK qsos on 6m but
have yet to hear any RTTY activity. I think if I got really serious about 6m
I'd want a rig that I could dedicate to that band and leave it on all the
time monitoring 50.125 or 50.110. In any event, if you imagine that 6m is
open about 2% of the time and about 2% of the activity on a band is RTTY
then you start to get the picture. But hope springs eternal... Hope to see
you on 6m.
73,
Doug, K4DSP
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Don Hill AA5AU
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:33 PM
To: 'RTTY Mailing List'
Subject: [RTTY] 6 meter RTTY?
Since the PRO III & PW-1 both do 6 meters, I'm thinking about purchasing a
Cushcraft A503S beam and installing it at about 65 feet since it will handle
a KW. The antenna is fairly inexpensive and have read good reviews on it.
Sounds like fun. My higher tribander actually resonates on 6 meters with
SWR less than 2:1 but I've not heard anything there yet.
Anyone in this group on 6 meter RTTY? It interests me. Looks like 50.125
is a common RTTY frequency?
73, Don AA5AU
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