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I’m pretty sure I made the first 6m contact from Iceland to New Zeland! After not having completed one QSO using the portable EmE setup, I was thrilled to compleate 3 QSO’s when the moon was between 7 to 3° this evening. First QSO was with Mick, W1JJ that I had already worked, but that confirmed that the [...] Locator is approx HP84xd or HP84xc. Will be running 600W using the 10el beam. I would like to work as many stations as possible, so please email me I can only work the moonset – so fire up GJTracker and see if you can work me. 73 de TF3CY After all the Es fun on 6m and encouragement from some of the EmE guys I decided to build a bigger yagi, I was originally going to build a 10 element but I was very sceptical about building a yagi with a 15m boom. So I opted for optimized 6 el yagi on a 7m [...] After putting up the yagi and not hearing a single beacon for few days I was becoming desperate, so I finished my HRD + Ipsound setup and rigged the TS-570 for remote control. Now I sit @ work with the 6m band humming in my ear. I can’t use the remote control to transmit, I think [...] The 6M yagi is working, testing with my father (TF3T) is scheduled to try to see if it’s really working, measure F/B and gain. This is a picture of the driven element, I scratched my head for a long time, getting very strange readings trying to match and tune the element. There was a very apparent [...] My brother, Gudmi TF3SG, sent a email to the local amateur group that he heard a beacon on the 6m band. I have not been very interested in this band before, but decided to jump to 6m on the TS-570. My antenna is a short G5RV dipole strung from a tree to a scaffolding. I [...] |
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