Wail till there is a 6-meter E-skip operation from Burrwood, Louisiana (EL58), at the extreme southernmost point of the Mississippi River delta.
So, if you thought the 20-meter DX pileups on FB8WG, Spratly, or 1A0KM were bad, you ain't heard nothing yet. Though they may sound funny now, they may not be all that strange after you start hearing them used as standard QSO exchanges above 50 MHz. All those funny designators are grid locators. FM26, CN78, FN51 and DM02 are grid locators! The southern half of this tiny land mass in the Santa Barbara Channel is the sole foothold in DM02. And those of you who live in southern California and have always dreamed of going on a DXpedition, turn your gaze on San Clemente Island. Should you be vacationing next summer at the Cape Cod National Seashore, don't plan on relaxing at Nauset Beach: You'll be pestered constantly on 50 MHz for your rare FN51 exchange. If you live in the farthest northwest reaches of Washington state, your CN78 designator will make you very popular on the VHF bands. If you live in Virginia Beach, Virginia, you are on exclusive FM26 real estate the rest lies under the Atlantic Ocean. And determining your locator is a piece of cake! It's all about collecting grid locators, the new VHF cousin of DXCC.
