[Boatanchors] 10 meters

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I hear BEACONS from great exotic locations all the time on 10m (like VY0 for example.) 

Really there are certainly MANY openings...  but what happens? 
You tune the whole band listening for guys calling CQ; all the way from 28.000 to 28.600 and 
hear NO signals at all. You tune the range again  - no signals. Beacons still strong. 

So you call CQ around 28.030 where anyone can operate - no reply. So you call again and 
again, and get zero replies. Then you call CQ up on 28.350 or so. Again and again. No 
replies. Beacons still pound in. 

WHERE are these 750,000 "NEW HAMS" everyone is always bragging about? 

They are somewhere frustrated as hell trying to program their radio that doesn't work, 
because it only has 5 buttons and a volume control and none of them do anything useful.

This is what happens when new graduates from today's "We-have-the-best-universities-in-
the-world" schools are hired to design equipment and their "digital logic between the ears" 
kicks in.

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On 5 Jun 2013 at 3:18, kd4wov at earthlink.net wrote:

To:	"Florida boatanchors" <FLBOATANCHORS at yahoogroups.com>
From:	kd4wov at earthlink.net
Date sent:	Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:18:12 +0000
Subject:	Re: [FLBOATANCHORS] 10 meters
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Hello Corey,

You are right 10 meters opens a lot and if your not there did it really open?

10 and 6 have been opening up, but you have to be calling CQ. Many many many times I 
have listened and heard nothing, but beacons. Then I called CQ and it seemed like everyone 
was waiting for someone else to call CQ.
Friday night a worked a few VK stations on 10 close to midnight. Look low and high in the 
band. 28.300 to 28.550
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From:  "Cory L. Siple" <corysiple at cfl.rr.com>
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:49:26 -0400
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Subject: [FLBOATANCHORS] 10 meters

 
I´ve only been a Ham for a couple of years.
So, I haven´t experienced the 6m and 10m propagation during the peak solar cycles.

But....

QRZ shows POOR and POOR for 12-10m.
However, the last few evening (up until 10:30pm EDT) there has been some strong signals 
coming out of the west coast (USA).
And, many low power Beacons are also coming thru loud and clear.

I talked to a guy in Trinidad a week or so ago with 100w. But, I don´t hear much of anyone 
else on the band.
Am I missing something? Or is it everyone else?

73
Cory KK4AJN
Central Florida


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