Today the Es season on 6 meters began for me.
The first signals where very weak, I could hardly take the stations. Around 14:30 UTC the signals were stronger and could I work via morse code with HA8CE in KN06EN. Almost half hours later I worked with YO6XK (SSB) in KN25BS, a new square.
For this season I will use my Yaesu FT817nd, 5 watts and a modified 5/8 for 2M to a 1/4 GP for 6M.
73, Tjeerd (Gose) - PA3GNZ
8m experiments
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Experiments at 6m (as opposed to 8m) have FAR exceeded what I expected and
convinced me that 8m WSPR at 10mW ERP would *definitely* be spotted by Es.
The...
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