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From: carpenter@nbs-vms (CARPENTER, ROBERT)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: RE: British hams on Six Meters
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 12:59:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 12:59:49 1985
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Actually I can't answer the question about when, in the morning, the
Gs have to go off 6-meters.

As for transatlantic QSOs on six......  Yes there were quite a few
contacts between New England and UK on six on July 2. One or two contacts
were made from as far south as the Washington area.

There was another opening (also Es) on 30 July. This was from Philadelphia
on south, so we had a chance here in the DC area. I worked 6 Gs (including
GJ3YHU). KB3QM in southern Delaware claims to have worked 30! The opening had
weak but solid signals for at least an hour in this area. It moved down
the coast to northern Florida eventually. See Bill's "World above 50 MHz"
in October QST for more details. He also worked GW during this opening.

These openings all started as soon as the Gs could fire up, and on the
earlier one, at least, one of the Gs phoned this country before their
legal starting time to alert the W gang that the band was open.

Bob, W3OTC

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