Tried off an on for about a half hour on 10.142 but no one around, or at least anyone who can hear me. I then went down to the lower part of the band to see if any CW stations around and called CQ and immediately got a response from a VE7. We were both running QRP CW but the band did have severe QSB and I went QRO to 100 watts. Then I worked a WA2 from Florida and then got a call on 2 meters from another ham trying out a new rig he got for his wife when she gets her license. So it has been a busy time:)
Right now I am back on 10140.5 +1500 = 10142 and called CQ on Olivia 8-500. I know that often by the time a person reads this, it could be hours later so they won't have time get to this frequency, even if we could work. 73, Rick, KV9U Danny Douglas wrote: >I have 1882 QSOs logged on 30 meters, and 253 countries and have found it an >excellent DX Band. That is two more countries than I have on 17 meters, and >just 2 less than on 40 meters. It exceeds my country count on 10/12 and of >course 80/160 as well. Looking at the logs I have worked a lot of RTTY >stations on the 10.035-10.040 portion of the band. Lower than that, has been >mostly CW. I don't do much domestic activity on it, so can pretty much speak >only of DX, though do hear stateside stations in the daylight hours and a >mixed bag at night. A glance thru the logs also indicates most of my DX >activity has been from around 2000Z - 0400Z on the band. I have noticed, at >times, during the evening hours, the band appears to be dead (no signals) but >suspect a lot of that is simply because no one is trying to use it, rather >than it being really "out". Those commercial/military RTTY stations seem to >get thru quite well, when no one else is transmitting as well. >Danny Douglas N7DC >ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA >SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all >DX 2-6 years each >. >QSL LOTW-buro- direct >As courtesy I upload to eQSL but if you > use that - also pls upload to LOTW > or hard card. > > >
