[Mich VHF UHF Society] VHF on field day

[Tom]

The good news/bads news is that field day weekend is typically the best 
weekend all year for E's on 6. Back in the late 60's, a group of then 
young uns put up a 6 meter rig (Swan no less), and six was open to 
everywhere, all day Sat/Sun, including Alaska. We made more points on 
six that the two low band stations.

By the way, the great 6 meter band opening a few weeks ago during the 
June ARRL contest? That was courtesy of K8JH/KB8KB/K8EIO and K8TB. We 
have been up to EN86 for three years in a row. With a portable tower, 
beam, K3/KPA500, and each of the three years, there was a solar CME on 
Tue/Wed that wiped out 6. So we stayed out of EN86 this year. And the 
band opened up.

You're welcome!

Tom K8TB



On 6/23/2016 2:44 PM, Reuven Z Gevaryahu wrote:
> On Field Day, W8HP will be running a 6m bean on our tower (stacked on 
> the HF tribander), as well as a talk-in 2m radio that will can for use 
> on FM simplex (maybe on calling channel now that it is allowed?) for 
> our VHF OP. We will be located in EN82kl, in Scout Park in Hazel Park. 
> For what the Hepburn maps are worth, there might be some tropo south 
> from MI, I guess we'll see. And maybe some Es.
>
> I realize that Field Day isn't much of a VHF activity, but if you hear 
> us, give us a call!
>
> --Reuven KB3EHW
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MiVUS mailing list
> MiVUS at mivus.org
> subscribe/unsubscribe http://mail.mivus.org/mailman/listinfo/mivus_mivus.org


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.mivus.org/pipermail/mivus_mivus.org/attachments/20160623/01dec84f/attachment.htm>