On Mon,5/11/2015 10:12 AM, Gerry Treas K8GT wrote:
And I got VUCC on 6 two years ago. Lots of fun.
Yes, LOTS of fun, especially during the summer months when E-skip is at
its peak. Going from memory, I think you and I have worked on 6M. I'm
running a K3/P3/KPA500, and work CW, SSB, JT65, JT9, FSK441 (for meteor
scatter), and ISCAT (good for tropo). My antenna is the original 3-el
SteppIR with the 4th fixed director. From my QTH 70 miles S of San
Francisco, I have 15 countries, 45 states, and 325 grids confirmed on
6M. Before I had the SteppIR and KPA500, I made a dozen or so double hop
E-skip QSOs to the east coast and KH6 with 100W into an 80/40 fan
dipole. When I was still in Chicago, I remember working a guy on Long
Island loading a wire in his basement!
VHF contest weekends are a great time to pick up new grids because so
many stations are active. I set my P3 to monitor 50.080 MHz to 50.280
MHz, and have WSJT-X running on 50.276 for JT65 and JT9. With this
setup, I can see the CW segment (50.080 - 50.1), the Atlantic DX window
(50.1 - 50.125), the calling frequency (50.125), SSB activity (50.125 -
50.240), and JT65/JT9. During a brief trans-equatorial opening last
fall, I made five Qs to three adjacent grids in PY and CX in about a
half hour. Three were JT65, two were CW, and I saw the guys on CW
because of that P3 monitoring setup.
73, Jim K9YC
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