Subj : Have you experienced 6m RFI? Myth or Reality?
To : k9zw
From : Ed Vance
Date : Wed Apr 30 2025 12:21 pm
6 Meters in the Metro Louisville Kentucky area in the early 1960's had QSO's on
a couple FM frequencies and several AM frequencies.
One of the FM frequencies had a weekly Civil Defense Net.
The other FM frequency had been used by OT'ers for (I'd say) 20 years earlier.
My first experience hearing 6M FM was when a High School friend was given a
mobile rig by his uncle.
That long whip antenna on my friends car made people think my friend was a
policeman because Police Cars had a long whip antenna on their back bumper back
then.
The Civil Defense office in City Hall had a Gonset 6M AM Transceiver and I
learned there were lots of Hams on 6 AM so I ordered a Heathkit Sixer and built
it so I could chat with others on 6M.
I learned a lot of Hams I talked with on the local 75M freq. were on 6M AM too.
Itwas about 10 years later that 2M FM became popular in my area.
I learned some Hams on 2M were also using 6M AM so I hooked my Sixer to a Halo
antenna I put in the attic and began chatting to some HamsA neighbor across the
street told me he could hear me when I was transmitting on his Heathkit
Television set. Shortly after that I quit using the Sixer and used 2M and HF
frequencies.
Is there any 6M activity in your area?
Ed W9ODR
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