[K3PZN-List] Nice 10 meter opening tonight!!!

[Curt Milton]

Anthony

To simplify things, i would consider building a 10m dipole and feeding it by itself.  

For this kind of propagation, called sporadic E (or E skip) the height of the antenna is not that critical to get in on the fun.  

Small possibility that the rig has an issue, but maybe it means your set of dipoles can't find a decent match on 10m?  (I dont know how your rig bandswitches, but if it is a switch exercise it some).  

10m e-skip is a passing fad every spring/early summer.  because its a moving target it is fun.  hopefully you can get something going.  

Curt


--- On Mon, 6/1/09, ARC <comulada at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: ARC <comulada at verizon.net>
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] Nice 10 meter opening tonight!!!
> To: "'Carroll County Amateur Radio Club'" <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 9:09 PM
> Hi all,
> 
> Not sure exactly what time it opened up but, 10 meters
> opened up for about
> an hour or so tonight (1930-2030 give or take), at least as
> long as I was
> listening. Listened to some good QSO's, unfortunately my
> rig is not fairing
> well on the 10 meter band so, I had to forego transmitting.
> I even watched
> some PSK31 QSO's going on around 28.100 for a bit with
> fldigi on the laptop,
> plugged into the speaker jack of my Kenwood. Hearing
> beacons from the
> mid-west and up in the Illinois areas. Florida was coming
> in rather nicely
> as well... Fun to hear the band coming alive tonight...
> 
> I really need to get some help with the 10 meter band. The
> rig works really
> nicely on 20 and 40 meters without problems. SWR is right
> around 1.3:1 so,
> I'm ok with those two bands but, the 10 meter band is
> giving me fits...
> 
> I am starting to think that it's something with the radio
> and not the
> dipole. I have been told that fan dipole bands can cause
> problems for each
> other although I am doubtful that this is an antenna
> problem just because of
> the fact that 20 and 40 have nice smooth movements on the
> bridge when keyed
> up. When I key up on 10 meters, the bridge goes crazy,
> flickering back and
> forth (without speaking into the mic at all). One other
> thought I had was
> that maybe there's something wrong with the bridge at that
> freq? I do notice
> that the lights on the radio flicker a little while the
> bridge is going
> crazy and I don't key up for more than a couple seconds
> since I don't want
> to cause any problems with it or at least any more...
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
> Anthony KB3RJH 
> 
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