Antennacraft ST2, 6m monitoring

[davidbroxson]

I recently installed this antenna and I'd like to listening to 6m ham particularly 52.525 Mhz national simplex frequency. But I'm not picking up anything. The antenna documents says that the elements are resonant in the 30-54 Mhz. I hear all the old farts on 2m saying that they talk on 6m sometimes but I'm not hearing them. Can anyone give me a opinion on why? I have 52.525 on priority channel for 3 days now, nothing heard. Thanks guys

 

[smokeyjones666]

According to this, there's a 6m repeater in Pensacola. You could try monitoring that for a while and see if you hear anything: Amateur radio ke4cot repeater information on 53.110 in Pensacola, florida

 

[digitalanalog]

i receive great performance on 52.680 using a ST2.

Its the skywarn Net situated at the Cleveland Airtport (i believe).

So you should have NO problem picking up signals in the 52.??? MHz range

 

[davidbroxson]

Maybe it's the trees around my house. Since it's spring there has been an increase in foliage. Could it be signal loss in my splitter, but then again I'm picking up other bands fine. Maybe I need better coax than the shipped RG-6. Thanks