[TVARC] ARRL 10M Starts Today

[K2PS Pete Stafford]

My fave contest begins tonight at 7P and runs for 48 hours.  Generally
speaking, 10 meters is open during the daylight hours, and closed at night.
However, my experience has been that Friday night is usually productive
until 10 or 11P.  Remember, everyone can work everyone, so most of your
contacts will be stateside.  The ARRL 10M Contest is probably not going to
have the kinds of spectacular QSO totals that we'll see in a couple of years
as solar flux increases, but it still has a good variety of propagation to
offer.  And we probably won't be able to work the world on a window screen
antenna, but a good deal of DX should be workable.  Likely to see a small EU
opening each morning at maybe 9A or so, and South American stations will
certainly be coming in during the afternoon hours.  Also, we should have a
good chance to work into Australia/New Zealand later in the afternoon.

 

The contest allows us to work one another on both CW and SSB (no digital),
and the exchange for us would be 59(9) FL.  So look for states and
provinces, and also Mexican states.  And for DX, they'll give a serial
number.

 

I'll be on mostly CW (since it's twice the points), and moving to SSB when
things get slow.  (If you want to enter the contest, you can be all CW, or
all SSB, or Mixed.)  Running only 150W to stay in the LP category, but I've
put up my 4 element 10M yagi, so hopeful to do well.  Please look for me and
give me a call!

 

73, Pete, K2PS

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