Days, nights, and weeks in total silence (save for the local FT8 beacons…), followed by absolute pandemonium! Yes! Yes! Yes!
This was all too much amplified by the openings the past few days that added a few new grids and one new DXCC to my six-meter logbook.
- N7PHY – DN38
- K7BWH — CN76
- D2UY — Angola
- KJ6VHZ — CM89
- KH6HI — BL01
- NH6JC — BL02
I now have four grids worked in Hawaii.
That’s one more amazing aspect of six meters. No need to stop when you’ve worked a new DXCC. Keep after it and work more grids. Case in point, I’ve worked 24 grids in Argentina.
Of course, the real prize on six meters is working the 488 grids required for the Fred Fish Memorial Award (FFMA). Thanks to some rovers and excellent Es, I now have 473 and searching for those rare grids to fill in the remaining 15. Three of the grids above contributed to that total. That’s an increasingly rare event.
Thank you, rovers, for your excellent work and putting up with the impatient operator that wants first that you point your antenna in their direction and then, once the grid is worked, suggests that you move to another grid they need. I know how that works, having done some roving myself.
The E season is just starting, and there has already been fantastic excitement, at least in my ham shack. I encourage you to get on the air and have fun before the magic activity moves into tragic quiet.
If you’d like to learn more about six meters, check out my Guide to 6 Meter DXing — Getting Started on the Magic Band.
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