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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    I would say Welcome To The Island but you're an old hack here. Congrats on your post though. Maybe we can loosen your tongue up a bit with a drink.

    Sorry OM, I'm driving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by w2amr View Post
    There is quite a bit of local ssb activity around here on 6. Am and FM , not so much. I would love to find someone around this area to do some 6 AM. Maybe fire up the old Heath 6er. I do have a rock for 50.4.
    If I hook an FTV-901R up to either the FT-980 or the FT-901DM I'm QRV on 6M; all modes. Could also get the TS-660 out.

    What's everyone running for an antenna on 6AM?
    "Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."

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    Quote Originally Posted by w2amr View Post
    Sorry OM, I'm driving.
    Either I'm confused or you are.

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    That tiki is always screaming in pain, no amount of alcohol helps. Maybe if you take that little umbrella out of his head? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0fzsJMzAM
    "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
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    Quote Originally Posted by kb2vxa View Post
    That tiki is always screaming in pain, no amount of alcohol helps.
    Brain freeze, look at all those ice cubes...
    "Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
    of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman



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    Quote Originally Posted by WØTKX View Post
    Brain freeze, look at all those ice cubes...
    The gentleman in your avatar ... the electricals ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    If I hook an FTV-901R up to either the FT-980 or the FT-901DM I'm QRV on 6M; all modes. Could also get the TS-660 out.

    What's everyone running for an antenna on 6AM?
    There is a local net that meets on 6 AM here Fred. But, I don't know the details about it, except that it's on 50.4

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    Quote Originally Posted by w2amr View Post
    There is a local net that meets on 6 AM here Fred. But, I don't know the details about it, except that it's on 50.4
    A bunch of us used to meet on 50.4 in the 80s. I had a Lafayette HA-460 and others in the group had various rigs. Clegg 66er was one. Antennas were dipoles.

    At the moment I have a 6/2/440 vertical connected to my FT-726Rs - and frankly, it doesn't play too well at the bottom end of the band. Gotta do something omnidirectional for net use. Thinking about a set of loops for 6/2/432.
    "Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."

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    This is the antenna I use for my summertime back yard station. A bit pricey but works well.
    https://www.m2inc.com/FG6MHOLOOP



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    Nice score. I had seen one of these at the annual club auction in Eau Claire a decade or so back and have wanted one ever since.
    I am surprised at such a sudden deterioration in a woman whose only ailment was a lazy anus.

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