6 meter action!

[Mudderoy]

Well I was pretty thrilled the other day when I was jumping around to the different bands on my drive home. I heard someone calling CQ on 6 meters, 50.131 MHz.

I called him and even though his signal was in and out we had a brief conversation. He was in Ohio!

6 meters is one of those very finicky bands when you really never know when there will be any activity on it so I was pretty amazed and happy to make maybe my second long range contact on the band!

[nickyg]

Being from Ohio myself, I can say. your lucky you got away with A quick conversation. Us Buckeyes can talk on and on for hours about nothing. even if no-one's there. I think it's because it's closer to the ozone hole.

[Mudderoy]

Being from Ohio myself, I can say. your lucky you got away with A quick conversation. Us Buckeyes can talk on and on for hours about nothing. even if no-one's there. I think it's because it's closer to the ozone hole.

He was doing WAS (Worked All States) on 6 meter, I believe. He didn't want to talk, just get the call sign and move on to someone else. I'm sure he had Texas already. Big state lots of amateur radio operators.

6 meters, if memory serves correctly, is also good for meteor scatter. The meteors coming into the atmosphere causes ionization and radio signal reflection. So you can hear people for a second. :D

[prerunner1982]

So you can hear people for a second. :D

better talk quick..

[denverd1]

thats pretty cool!

[Mudderoy]

better talk quick..

High speed Morse code, or packet...