Jim,
Thanks for the Field day report on the T-T 6N2. I have mine on order
but don't expect to receive it until sometime in July.
Can you give any information on how the 6N2 receiver performed on a
crowded band and also in the high RF envirnment you must have had at
7000 ft?
Thanks & 73,
Bill - K6WLM
Jim Lowman wrote:
>
> I had to cut Field Day a bit short this year, so I went up to the
> mountains for the afternoon.
>
> A couple of our QRP club members have set up a 6m/2m/432 MHz station the
> past two years, in conjunction with the famous Zuni Loop QRP
> Expeditionary Force.
>
> Bill, K6WHP, urged me to bring my new 526 all-mode 6m/2m Ten-Tec radio.
> This was a good opportunity to see how it performed, since I've had it all
> of about 10 days and haven't hooked it up to anything better than a 2m
> mag-mount antenna - what a waste of a fine product! :-)
>
> The 2m band was pretty bad, but I pulled the coax to the 3-element 6m
> Yagi off Bill's Icom 706MKIIG and connected it to the 526. Within 30
> minutes, I had worked New Mexico, Oklahoma, two stations in North Texas,
> and Louisiana from the LAX Section here in southern California, using
> 4 watts of output power (I did mention that we are a QRP bunch, right?)
>
> It took some work to get the Louisiana contact into the log, but the
> gentleman was patient and worked with me through several repeats. The
> other contacts took only the one exchange.
>
> Now, a lot of credit goes to our location at 7000 feet, and the great
> propagation that has been widely reported on 6 meters, but I can say that
> I'm very pleased with the 526. Also pleased to hear a bit of CW on 6m,
> but I hadn't brought a paddle.
>
> After an inauspicious start (I had set the power to 4 watts, but forgot
> that the mic gain was at zero; normally I don't work much phone) and these
> good contacts, the band sort of fell flat. It seemed like I'd worked
> about everyone who was on.
>
> This is a fun and straightforward radio to work, and I look forward to
> giving the CQ VHF contest a go next month. I have an Icom 706 also, and
> all the menus drove me nuts. The 526 has everything on the front panel,
> just the way I like it.
>
> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
>
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