If your 6m receiver isn't doing anything on early weekend mornings you could do worse than to leave it on 50 MHz hooked up to your computer with the free WSJT-X 2.0 program running. Even with a very simple antenna you might get some interesting distant callsigns pop up thanks to the MSK144 mode and the communication enabled by meteor scatter. Find out more here:
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