[Boatanchors] 10 meters

[Bry Carling]

Yes, John if there had been any vigilant AM ops on the other end you could have had a 
seriously cool AM contact!




On 5 Jun 2013 at 8:09, John Flood wrote:

Date sent:	Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:09:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	John Flood <kb1fqg at yahoo.com>


Reminds me of one night during the last sunspot cycle. I was in 
the mad scientist laboratory (aka my shack)around 11PM or so 
fixing something that went poof and had my 10W 6M rig 
connected to a loop ant and it was parked on 50125KC I heard a 
4 call come in answered it we moved up a few KC and had a 1/2 
hour plus nice qso with a guy in his car on his way home along 
the Atlantic coast somewhere near Miami. We had each other 59 
the whole time(really, it wasn't a contest report) He thanked me 
for helping him stay awake on the ride home and I then tuned 
around... Just static... tried AM on 50400KC nothing, even tried 
the FM end of the band simplex and on a couple of the local 
repeaters nothing. Threw out several calls and no replies 
anywhere. Either everyone was on the internet or we had a 
pipeline between Boston and Miami and that was the only 
opening!

John Flood
KB1FQG



From: Bry Carling <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: Florida boatanchors <FLBOATANCHORS at yahoogroups.com> 
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; tetrode at googlegroups.com; 
AMATEURRADIO at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 10:31 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] 10 meters

[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
Send reply to: FLBOATANCHORS at yahoogroups.com 




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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ReplyTo: FLBOATANCHORS at yahoogroups.com 
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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