6 METRES

[ve6pg]

...CAME INTO THE SHACK AT 5:30AM THIS MORNING...75/40 DEAD...FIRED UP THE 6 METRE RECEIVER,WHICH IS ON A 40M DIPOLE,AND WAS HEARING BEACONS DOWN LOW..CALLED CQ ON CW ON .125,NOTHING HEARD...TUNED UP TO 50.400,AND HEARD WEAK HETS,DONT KNOW WHERE FROM,AGAIN 40M DIPOLE NOT ROTATABLE..LAST SUMMER I WORKED A NUMBER OF GUYS IN W8,W9,0,W3,AND W4 ON 6 AM. OUTPUT WAS ABT 40WATTS,WITH EITHER A '706,OR FT847...ANYWAY,KEEP IT IN MIND..YA NEVER KNOW..
  73...TIM...SK..

[AJ1G]

Six is indeed hopping of late.  On Saturday afternoon, was listening to sideband  locals in SE New England on 50.135 with my Yaesu FT-100D in the car with a mag mount whip.  Worked them easily, then heard and worked K9DG near Madison , WI.  When he turned his beam(s) on me he was overloading the receiver!  I was 59 out there as well from the mobile with 100 watts PEP and the whip.  Didnt hear any AM on though.  Some of the locals here were working down into PR and the islands.