[Boatanchors] 10 meters

Wed Jun 5 13:37:16 EDT 2013

that makes much more sense to me, I was wondering.
BTW, I do remember the great 10m prop. back in the late 50's.
73,

Al, W8UT
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On 6/5/2013 1:30 PM, Glen Zook wrote:
> Duh!  Fat fingers!  28.400 MHz!
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> Glen, K9STH
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> To: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "boatanchors at mailman.qth.net" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "tetrode at googlegroups.com" <tetrode at googlegroups.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 10 meters
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> No.  That is a satellite frequency.
> 10 meter AM is all around 29.0- 29.1 MHz.
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> Bry Carling
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> From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
> To: "Brian Carling AF4K" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
> Cc: "boatanchors at mailman.qth.net" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>, "tetrode at googlegroups.com" <tetrode at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [Boatanchors] 10 meters
> Date: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 12:31 pm
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> Try calling CQ on 29.400 MHz USB.  This is the "official unofficial" calling frequency for 10-meters.
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> Glen, K9STH
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>   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 9:31 AM
> Subject: [Boatanchors] 10 meters
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> [Soapbox]
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> I hear BEACONS from great exotic locations all the time on 10m (like VY0 for example.)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> [/Soapbox]
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> On 5 Jun 2013 at 3:18, kd4wov at earthlink.net wrote:
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> 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,
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> You are right 10 meters opens a lot and if your not there did it really open?
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> 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
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> 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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