The Start of 6m 2012

Experienced my first ever opening on 6m last night and it was pretty neat.  Since getting the new rig last fall I've tuned through 6 a few times but never heard anything, then last night I started seeing spots on hamspots so tried tuning one in.  Over the next 30-40 mins I was able to hear CO, a number of FL, TN, TX, and CA stations.  There was pretty heavy fading but for a bit it was actually pretty packed between about 50.050 to 50.175.  I heard a number of US stations working Europeans but no real DX for me yet.  Now it's time to start planning to build a 6m moxon or something similar that can beat my fan dipole.... assuming the XYL would actually let me put it up....   Until next time, 73 de N0QBX