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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Fiji on 6M

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  The 2024 season for me started in March with a fairly regular amount of South American openings, mostly late afternoons. March 15th was th...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Falkand Islands Heard on 6M

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  I had heard that VP8 was coming in on 6m earlier in the week, but I missed the excitement. This Sunday afternoon I did manage to catch the...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

New Caledonia on 6m Heard

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 Sunday afternoon WW1L posted that he was hearing FK8CP, so I swung the antenna around to listen direct. I actually managed to get a single ...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

February 6M opening

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  We had a brief EU opening on February 21st. From my location I was hearing some western european stations and some Caribbean stations (Sur...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

2022 6M season wrap-up

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For me, this season got off to a big start in April with a number of days of TEP into South America, getting me a few new DXCC. The normal E...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Omni-Rig and DXlabs commander - Elecraft K3 and Digi-U mode

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  In my particular setup I've been using SDR-Console with an Airspy R2 for receiving on 6m. This allows me to have several "slices...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Mid-season 6m update: DXCC and band conditions

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  DXCC on 6m has been attained! Now to collect cards and LoTW entries... On July 6 I worked: UB7K for #98 5B4AGN for #99 ...and finally 4X4D...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Mid-season summary: Weird start....

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 Comparing this Es season to the previous two seasons, this one has been weird for me. Here's the rough highlights: - One big EU opening...

Angola on 6m

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  Angola showed up briefly on 6m today: I turned the amp up to 500W, but they faded after 4 decodes. A few other stations heard him as well,...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Hawaii on 6M

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  Almost! I heard him for a number of sequences, got a signal report back but couldn't complete.