[Boatanchors] 10 meters

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bry Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: "Florida boatanchors" <FLBOATANCHORS at yahoogroups.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]


   I check 10M every day. Most days there is nothing 
although sometimes I hear beacons.  I do hear one guy who 
calls CQ 10-10 and gets very angry if he gets calls that are 
not 10-10. His CQ sounds like a recorded loop. I also 
remember the mid-1950s when I could hear the world on ten 
and an S-38B.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com