[HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?

[Charley & Peggy Robinson]

All,

I've been enthusiastic about the 10 meter rag chew idea because I liked 
Gale's idea of getting  the tech class operators involved in working on 
HF.  I was enthusiastic enough to erect a 10 meter dipole in several 
configurations and I'm still moving it around in an effort to get out 
better to the the Harper & F'burg area.   I missed out last Wednesday 
evening (my bad) after the last redeployment.  Thinking about putting it 
on the roof temporarily next.

Now, once again, there's a movement to abandon the 10 meter band because 
of "propagation difficulties."   I submit that the "difficulties" could 
very well be because of inadequate antennae - mine included.   I plan to 
work on better antenna deployment instead of abandoning the original 
idea of trying to motivate the techs to get on HF.

73,

Charley
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