kg4ehv
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Any 6 meter FM activity in your area? Started listening to 52.525, but so far nada.
6 Meter FM
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Yes, occasionally on a local 6-Meter repeater in my area - 53.31000:
Don't think I ever heard anyone on the national FM simplex call: 52.525.
Don't think I ever heard anyone on the national FM simplex call: 52.525.
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There is/was a 6m repeater in Hendersonville.
Per repeaterbook.com it appears your nearest 6M FM repeater may be in Hendersonville on 53.1300
W4FOT Repeater – Hendersonville, NC
kg4ehv
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I have the W4FOT machine in the memory, but no joy.
If you park your 6M FM receiver on 52.525 24/7/365 you'll eventually hear something during a band opening. They are usually brief and few and far between. Be prepared to listen certainly for many weeks, likely many months.
There are a couple of 6m repeaters in my area. There's a weekly roundtable net on one of them each Thursday evening. Unfortunately, I don't have any good antennas for 6m at home.
Yes, occasionally on a local 6-Meter repeater in my area - 53.31000:
Don't think I ever heard anyone on the national FM simplex call: 52.525.
Back in the day I had a shiny new FT-857 and someone gave me an old 6m antenna. I slapped it up and made a call on 52.525 and got nothing. I went over to 50.125 USB and low and behold there was an entire group in Jacksonville FL using it. We also had a repeater on 53.020 that was linked to 10m, 2m, 220 and 440.
I have since moved to Colorado Springs and the listing says we have a 6m repeater up on a mountain, but I do not have my 6m station established yet.
Pretty much cross-linked repeaters and FT8.
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There's at least ten 6m repeaters I can reach from my house plus a lot of 6m SSB and a few 2m/70cm systems that can link to 52.525.
rescuecomm
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Can you key the 53.13 up? I can hear it from my residence but I don't have the 6m antenna on the FJ anymore. I used to make a few contacts on the 53.41 Caesars Head, but it's been off the air for more than a year. Not much 6m FM repeater activity in upstate SC lately.
kg4ehv
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No luck yet, it has a 100.0 tone. Six has been dead here also.
Token
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My wife and I use 52.525 for our local talk-around.
And yeah, I know the moderate controversy of using a calling freq for talk-around, but if people hear it and do not like it they can come up on freq and tell me so. By using it I am also monitoring it (it is not like my wife and I talk for hours on end, more often just short "I am 10 minutes out" kind of calls), so if someone wants to "call" on it, I will hear, and also I can tell easily when the band is open.
T!
And yeah, I know the moderate controversy of using a calling freq for talk-around, but if people hear it and do not like it they can come up on freq and tell me so. By using it I am also monitoring it (it is not like my wife and I talk for hours on end, more often just short "I am 10 minutes out" kind of calls), so if someone wants to "call" on it, I will hear, and also I can tell easily when the band is open.
T!
6 meters isn't exactly busting at the seams so hearing chatter on it seems like a good thing for the reason you mentioned - knowing that the band is active. Heck, I've monitored the 6M calling frequency for quite some time and heard nothing. It would have been nice to hear something. But hey, if I ever feel the need to get some useless complaining out of the way, I know where to go.
