Rather unexpectedly a few of us appeared on 6m this evening (Monday 16th May). Firstly Jon G0IUE and Brian G6HUI were doing some tests. Jon had just installed a Cushcraft AR6 vertical ready for the Sporadic-E season and Brian was using a horizontal dipole and despite the cross polarisation good 5-7 reports were exchanged.
Before long word was out there and up popped Gary M0OTL (Melksham) and Jack M0PLS (Chippenham). Jack had set up his Buddipole in the back garden and his signal was clear and strong using just 10 Watts from his Discovery SDR transceiver.
We chatted for 90 mins and it was great fun to get back on to 6m. Jon’s new vertical and Jack’s Discovery radio are shown below.

