[Boatanchors] 10 meters

[rbethman]

Personally, I have grown weary with the current situation.

10 meters is always "iffy".  I get on, I *TOO* hear the beacons. I 
listen first, and do NOT hear any CQs.

I give it a try, and there is silence.  It doesn't matter if I use my 
TS-930SAT or a DX-60.  Neither does it matter what mode - CW/SSB/or AM.

Patience wears thin.....

Bob - N0DGN


On 6/5/2013 10:31 AM, Bry Carling wrote:
> [Soapbox]
>
> 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.
>
> [/Soapbox]
>
>
>
> 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
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
>
> 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
>