[Boatanchors] 10 meters

K0DAN k0dan at comcast.net
Wed Jun 5 15:04:06 EDT 2013 

This has been an interesting thread. I believe another factor is that many 
(most?) hams today don't even listen or tune around much. They are heavily 
reliant to DX cluster posts and if they see little or no cluster activity on 
10M, 6M, (pick a band), well then it must be dead and bad propagation. The 
clusters do have some value, but not in making or receiving a CQ or of being 
a predictor of propagation.

Not that it should be necessary to do this, but I wonder what the results 
would be if you or I, calling CQ, concurrently posted our CQ call on one of 
the cluster spot lists?

73
de k0dan

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Flood
Sent: June 05, 2013 10:09
To: Brian Carling AF4K
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 10 meters

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; 
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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
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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>
Sender:  FLBOATANCHORS at yahoogroups.com
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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