[Boatanchors] 10 meters

[Bob Macklin]

Last year I learned about the Reverse Beacon Network.

It seems to work well for CW and RTTY. The robots copy CW and RTTY 24/7. Not
so for SSB. That requires people.

You can call CQ(CW) on any band then go to the Reverse Beacon Network and
see which robots heard you.

I use DX Lab to display a semi-realtime map of CW activity on any band of
interest.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"

----- Original Message ----- 
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>; 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 7:31 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
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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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