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6 meter open
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Your best bet is to monitor the call frequencies:
50.110 International
50.125 Domestic
52.525 FM
lol...thats where the older cordless phones operate.
6 is dead now. I can hear the K8TB beacon at about an S7 but I'm close.
I need a true 6 meter antenna!! I tried my antron which tunes there along with my inverted V I heard some talking way out there but otherwise notta damn thing either I missed it or these antennas are absolutely useless there eventhough the auto tuner tunes them. 
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:angry:That 49.830 Mhz is also used by "baby monitors". There are some remarkably odd 'baby talk' on them at times. Babies really talk like that??
About all I have on 6 meters now is a home-brew dipole. Since it's reasonably resonant it does about as well as anything. Don't expect much from an 'A99' or such no matter how 'good' the SWR is.
- 'Doc
About all I have on 6 meters now is a home-brew dipole. Since it's reasonably resonant it does about as well as anything. Don't expect much from an 'A99' or such no matter how 'good' the SWR is.
- 'Doc
I was getting all the DX on 6 with my antron 99 which surprized me. Made a contact to Florida but everyone I was hearing was on a horizontal antenna so I think I just gor lucky with that contact. Every station I heard was at least 59 or better. I got to get a loop up.
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during the contest the previous weekend, k3tuf (ephrata, pa.......170 mile straight trip to me ;-), but then again, look at his antennas), a few dozen 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 0's, along with c6akq in the bahamas. no CT or G calls though. this weekend had some usa e skip, but nothing spectacular.
www.KU4AB.com for his 6 meter loops (squalo), or google 'the moxon project', nice home depot moxon for 6m, easy to build and double the gain of a loop. does need a rotator, not too narrow beamwidth, could armstrong it for some fun.
"which is what causes your noise level of SWR to elevate when you are trying to listen."
This is a new concept, I am interested please explain. I am here to learn.
"That is the reason why Television signals are horizontally polarized"
More times than not you find BOTH polarities are being transmitted.
It was not that the band conditions was(were) is proper "Queen's" Language correct?) open, it was that there were more people available to talk to
This is new also, please explain since propagation has nothing to do with band conditions. How does this work?
Looking forward to your reply.
All the Best
BJ
This is a new concept, I am interested please explain. I am here to learn.
"That is the reason why Television signals are horizontally polarized"
More times than not you find BOTH polarities are being transmitted.
It was not that the band conditions was(were) is proper "Queen's" Language correct?) open, it was that there were more people available to talk to
This is new also, please explain since propagation has nothing to do with band conditions. How does this work?
Looking forward to your reply.
All the Best
BJ
Good stuff BJ. I was wondering the same thing on a few points as well especially the part ""which is what causes your noise level of SWR to elevate when you are trying to listen."
I'm still trying to figure out what the noise level of SWR is. I thought it was just because I worked last night and didn't sleep and being up for almost 33 hours was the issue. :laugh:
Also true about more stations using both polarities especially now with HDTV. Not all countries use strictly horizontal BTW and use vertical polarity instead. Those same countries also have a better quality transmission format than out NTSC as well.
So, is it just me that detects contradiction between the content of post #12 and #15? Band conditions (propagation) has nothing to do with why you can hear DX, yet the 'explanation' given talks about propagation.
I'm also interested in learning what 'your noise level of SWR' is...
I'm also interested in learning what 'your noise level of SWR' is...
So, is it just me that detects contradiction between the content of post #12 and #15? Band conditions (propagation) has nothing to do with why you can hear DX, yet the 'explanation' given talks about propagation.
I'm also interested in learning what 'your noise level of SWR' is...
There is a contradiction. Perhaps the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing. Either that or the poster thinks we are all dumb-asses and not smart enough to see the difference.
And to further the discussion I too am still awaiting the answer to what the noise level of SWR is. Perhaps it was just a mistake just like a few other points mentioned. Example: It is generally accepted in engineering circles that radio waves, particularly VHF and above, travel 33% further than line of sight and not 15% as was posted. This is the reason why we use a modified graph paper scaled to 4/3 of the Earth`s radius when plotting radio paths when preparing a brief for submission. In 22 years of plotting commercial STL paths I have never heard of the 15%. 
