[SMCARA] Ten Meters

[Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS]

Well, lunchtime today was booming!  I worked I1POR with my 3 1/2 watt mobile rig.  Then bagged Iceland, Croatia, Scotland and Belgium, using the 100 watt "big rig" at K3NAL into the monster "connie Monnie" (conical monopole about 100 feet tall) antenna farm. I heard a couple of stations in the UK working Mexico and SW US on 29.6 FM, but could raise them (one way propagation?) even though they were full quieting here.

Tom

Tom Clarke
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard (KG3BOZ) [mailto:kg3boz at md.metrocast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:17 PM
To: Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS; smcara at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [SMCARA] Ten Meters

Just as the grey line approached last night I copied mongolia and new caldonia on 10 meters JT 65.  The band died shortly thereafter. 


73 DE KG3BOZ



-------- Original message --------
From: "Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS" <frederic.clarke at navy.mil> 
Date: 10/23/2013 12:19 (GMT-05:00) 
To: smcara at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: [SMCARA] Ten Meters 


If you haven't been playing on 10 lately, you owe it to yourself to do
so!  The band has been pretty hot with some surprising DX in there.

On the way to lunch yesterday, I worked Paul, W0RW who was pedestrian
portable while hiking in the Rockies! I was running 3.5 watts from my
817 on batteries in the truck with a 10M hamstick and he was using an
ex-military PRC-319 backpack at 50 watts to an 8 foot whip.

This morning I heard HA5NF from Hungary running over S9.  Big pileup, so
my QRP couldn't break it. 

Just for grins, I also worked a guy on 29.0 AM and a couple more on 29.6
FM.  Fun times!

73 Tom/W4OKW
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