Well, this is my March column, and I always try to make a point to promote 6-meter activity. Traditionally, in the Northern Hemisphere, our strongest opportunities on 6 meters come from Sporadic-E (Es) propagation, from April through July. But as each sunspot cycle strengthens, we begin to see opportunities for other types of propagation, including F2 on 6 meters. Recently, some impressive propagation has been reported, which is perhaps a combination of various methods, and you may expect this to continue through most of 2023. Recently, there has been a thread on the FFMA (Fred Fish Memorial Award) email group about various modes of propagation, and I thought you would find it interesting as well. I asked Frank Donovan, W3LPL, noted contester and all-around knowledgeable ham, to comment about the types of 6-meter propagation, and he offered the following, including a link to a very nice treatment of one particular mode, Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP):
W3LPL Says:
The F ionospheric region and the E layer support multiple
