[ADXA] Hawaii booming on 10 meters

[Jay Bromley]

Hi Joel,
No big gun station here, but notice that Kathy had a few contacts on 10m.
She was looking for new ones and so didn't stay on that band long, but
notice on the Spectrum scope a lot of signals on Saturday.  Mostly to the
south, but some to the east like EA8, etc.

73 de jay..

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Sent: Monday, November 25, 2019 7:53 AM
To: adxa <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ADXA] Hawaii booming on 10 meters

I trust everyone got on and worked some gud DX this weekend in CQWW. 
There was a ton of it on.

As a bit of further explanation on my comment below that I sent in a hurry
to alert everyone to a nice 10 meter opening, sometimes when I make posts or
send reports I receive comments or a response that says "Well, sure with
those BIG antennas you have!" and that is not always the case. I do have a
standard set of antennas I use for everyday DX'ing but I also have "options"
that I erect in various configuration in addition to those for contests and
those were not all out when we had our meeting here in September. One of
those options is to install a small tribander, in this case an old Cushcraft
A3, fixed to the southeast to cover openings to South America on 20/15/10
during a DX contest so I simply have to push a button to select it rather
than to keep cranking a rotor back and forth. This antenna is only around 50
ft high and is what I was using during the 10 meter opening and my "No I'm
NOT" comment was that the larger antennas were not being used at the time.

So, with a very small tribander at 50 ft during the contest on Saturday
afternoon I worked 24 DXCC countries on 10 and 13 Zones. Total Q's were 47.
So if you were just starting out DX'ing you would have been 24% on your way
to a DXCC just using 10 meters this weekend, not to mention the others you
could have worked on 20 and 15. I thought I read somewhere that propagation
is dead, the sky had fallen and amateur radio is DOOMED! As Lee Corso says
every Saturday morning on College Football Game Day "NOT SO FAST!"

Only have a small station or just starting out DX'ing, or know someone who
is? Come to the ADXA conference December and catch K5EJ's presentation
"DX'ing on a Budget".

The CQWW DX Contests are over for the season however we do have the ARRL DX
contests coming up so get ready and GET IN THERE!!!

73 Joel W5ZN



On 2019-11-23 12:56, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
> Two Hawaii stations on 10 meter CW. KH6CJJ and WH7M.
> 
> And NO I'm not.....I'm hearding the LOUD on a little Cushcraft A3 side 
> mounted on one of the towers at 50 (more on that later).
> 
> GET ON.....10 HAS BEEN WIDE OPEN. 23 DXCC Countries and 45 Q's today 
> on 10 meters alone.
> 
> ZN
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