GREAT Opening's on 6-M the Last 3 days

[Clark L. Stewart]

WOOF!  The 6-M band has really been hopping over the last few days.  I could not participate today as I had a medical appointment in Kanawha City but I saw that my station did decode the China station that Hal, W8HC, and Bart, WT8V, both worked - while I was in the shower!!



On Tuesday I did work a New One (EU1KY, Belarus - already confirmed) for Country No. 167 on the Magic Band. The band was so hot I decided to give out WV and EM98 so I actually called "CQ DX" (which I hardly ever do.)  I worked 138 QSO's (mostly EU) and then Wednesday I worked another 86 QSO's.  This helped my Grid Totals as yesterday I had a period where I worked 12 New Grids in 1 hour, and 11 New Grids the rest of the day. 

I downloaded my LoTW confirmations and find that I now have 1,160 Grids Worked on 6-M and 1,115 Confirmed.  WHEEEEE!  It's hard to remember when I was struggling to just get my first 100 Grids for the VUCC Award.



On Saturday I managed to work one of the last 27 Grids (out of the 488 in the Continental US) that I need for the FFMA award.  Then last night, I worked another.  That leaves me only needing 25 Grids.

Below is my Grid Map.  The Grids shown in White are what I still need to work.  All the rest of the USA is Confirmed.  Blue means it was a Paper QSL and the DM56 shown in Gold means I am waiting on a Paper QSL from him.




It has been a LONG DRY SPELL on 6-M but now things are cooking.  I hope everyone who wants to can get in on the fun!


73, Clark, W8TN

[K8RRT Tim]

        Clark,

    Congratulations on your totals. A lot of time in the seat for sure. 

           The last two days have given me 3 newones on 6m.  I decoded Aland islands and Moldova yesterday.  They would be newones. 

            But no sustainable prop. 

      I am now at 130 confirmed on 6m .

22 years on the band. I sure do remember when it was ssb or cw. It was a crawl to get one newone a year!

       I was so committed to chasing 6m dx I set up a old baby monitor in front of  TS 2000 scanning frequencies 50090  to 50125 carrying the baby monitor receiver with me all the time if I was out side. 

          Yup I got hooked on 6Ms for sure . 

               As I call it the 'agony of defeat band'. 

                 Good luck to everyone  in the chase. 

                 Today's SAUDI ARABIA contact came in confirmed earlier today. See below

        73 Tim K8RRT

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[Larry Fravel]

Clark - 

Congratz that is very impressive! You are rockin 6 lately.

Larry K8YYY

 Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. 
–Elvis Presley