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Ten is open.....

Ther's a corntester , k6VO, in Irvine, CA, doing the contest thing and is being heard nicely into C NY.

Thars nothing heard on 29.0001

If yer not happy with the lower bands, maybe give the upper stuff a try.

klc

10 is very open today. 28.300 to 28.500 is packed and signals are strong at 1800z.

Heard a couple of west coast AM stations at 29.000. I tried but no success.  Need to pay my 10m ant some attention. SWR is over 3:1.

I worked a K6TOX and W7BW on 10 just above 29.0 around 2:45 pm today.  The K6 was calling CQ about the same time I was, and wb2icq snagged him first, and I called him when they finished. The band fell out while I was in qso with the W7 and I didn't see anything else on the panadapter for about 10 minutes, then I moved down to 17.

I was running the flex 5K and the titan amp making about 125 watts and got S9 reports. They were running an apache  and an FT1000 barefoot respectively and were S7-8.

Was nice to make a few contacts on 10. I could see several other AM carriers around 29.0 while in QSO, but they were all gone when the band dropped out.

Ther's prop on 10 a lot mo than people realize. What i've found interesting is a tour of the beacon 'band' at night. I've copied stuff for time periods of an hour or more at 1 AM.......   who wudda thunk.


klc

a couple of good buddy 10-4 types running AM on 28.3450.

Ten is open.....

Coup el o beacons in ID,WA, AZ... heard here in C NY.    I'm on 29.003  Where are U??

klc 

I had a nice chat today at round 1:30pm with Ron K0ETD who was in Tucson. He was running an Apache and was S-7 to S-9 in CT. I was running 5 watts into the 250 foot open-wire center-fed and received an S-9 report. The path held up fine for about 10 minutes and then things got a little wobbly. Haven't seen anything else up there this afternoon.

Had a FB QSO with VK4VN, Steve in Brisbane for about 15 minutes on 28.990 ths afternoon at 5pm Eastern.  I live about 50 mi east of Charlotte, NC. I am running a converted Johnson Messenger II CB at 3 watts output into a single 8875 linear final at about 30 watts output into a delta loop at 50 feet.  This is the first contact I've made on the rig since I converted it 2 years ago and have been waiting for the band to come around.  By the way, you guys wanting a FB antenna find an old V-Quad Maco beam, otherwise a delta loop with reflector, shorten it about a foot, tune the gamma, mount it horizontal and have fun.
Can't wait to get my DX-100 back to life and on the band.
Darrell KF4DX

I truely envy the last two posters as up here there is nil for AM activity on or around 29mhz..SSB down lower however is spectacular!..no uh uh no new countries yet but the likes of MW SV9 PA ON 9H SV 5B and even YB0 grace my logbook..missed the E21......so have not been reporting as this is an AM website but darn if it just won't appear here..there's always tommorow..
                         frustrating sometimes..73 de DAVE

FM5DN Leon from Martinique calling CQ DX and working pile-up around 28.38ish.  Seemed to be working lots of stateside stations but was "beaming" to Europe.

YN2MG in Nicqeragua also has a pile up on this freq @ 17:00 EST

10 meters was open all afternoon. PR stations were booming in. They always do.

Just work Aruba on 28.4something... calling CQ on 29Mcs

Listening to WB2EMS and a W6 right now....

I didn't hear anything.  ~sigh~  Was there and calling for about an hour...

That was W6WRE, John near Prescott Arizona. I'm on a friends small sailboat working our way up the east coast from Oriental, NC. Today when I made that contact with him, I was in the Virginia Cut about 25 miles south of Norfolk, VA. I'm running an ICOM 703 with 10 watts PEP (2.5 watt carrier) and a buddistick antenna clamped to the stern rail. I had a nice QSO with John.

Yesterday I worked Oklahoma, Munich, Costa Rica, and Texas on ssb.

I've been calling each day on 21.420 and 29.0. When John was on 29, I called up 10 and 20 khz. I hope to be on daily so keep an eye out for me. I'm QRP, but the 703 has some compression so the audio is fairly punchy.

I heard a couple of stations calling, including someone on 29 under John when he turned it over to the w4 he worked before me.

Wow.  I'm listening on my HPSDR to the CB band between 27.005 and 27.085 Mhz, beaming west on the triple 10M stack.  There's stations from northern Calif crashing in right now at about 6:30PM East coast time. Some are S9+30.  Some funny raps. Those guys certainly make use of the band. The Derb would love it.

I tuned up to the ham band and don't hear a peep.   Goes to show that the band can be open but nobody on to know about it.

T

Thars  a bunch o' gud budy bleed through on my ricebox. And some local SSB activity on 28 .450.

No one comes back on 29.0005 Mc.      But I still have value.


klc

Called CQ a few times earlier...  no joy


WW4Q working a VK4VN now...  

Da bands open.


klc

Calling CQ on 28.328.

Some Hispanic activity now on 28.350.

Phil - AC0OB

Da bands open......
Beacons from all over,   Ok, TX,  S. Amerika etc.

I'm on 29.0013 Mc.for the next 1/2 hour or so.

Where are yew?

Da bands open......


all over da place


klc

It was open here, but only to Texas.   I just checked the area around 29.0 (forgot to check SSB, CW & beacons) - nothing heard so far.

Good e-Skip condx now. Calling CQ on 29.000

Yep, I worked Florida around 5:30 pm (6:30 pm eastern).  s9 signals with 25 watts.
Gave a shout on 29.000 AM and WQ4Y saw my signal on his Smuggly Flex-5000 from Inverness, FL. 

We might have been able to work each other John if the timing was wright. I worked stations in AL, GA, IL, PA and the Carolinas alll within a 90 minutes span from here near Tampa. I'm hopeful conditions will stay this way the most of the time for the two few months.

Maybe would could start a 29 MHz net with stations within a 1000 mile radius of each other, Everyone may not be able to hear the enitre roundtable, but hopefully most of it. I'm game, deal me in!

*posting antes and blinds*  ;D

Sunday June 5 7:06 PM Eastern time:

I'm picking up 29.6 FM activity from 4-land on my scanner right now, listening on a VHF discone antenna!

Prop map shows relatively quiet world-wide 10 meter activity at 7:28 PM EDT
but 6 meters WOW -Caribbean, S.A. and across the pond.

My scanner is picking up 29.000 AM activity now (7:36 pm Eastern).

Ten is open.....

No one comes back on 29.0003 Mc.      But I still have value.

klc

Good E-layer condx today including double hop. Today on 29.000 I worked between 18:000 and 19:15 UTC:

KE1FT - Mass.
K1JJ - Conn.
W3FJJ - Md.
KF4DX - N.C.

Nice to have 10 open for July 4th! QSB was moderate with all stations being at least readability four.

Got the Viking II tuned up on 10 meters.... hearing some faint AM...

Yep, 10M was fun today with variable signal conditions.

Stations worked on 29.000 Mhz AM:

K0EOO   MN

WS4B    FL

KF4DX   NC  - HUGE signal at S9+20.  Loudest so far this cycle.

KN4FE   GA

WB5UGT  TX

AJ4YV     NC

KB1DFC  RI

KH6JS    HI-ram

T    

Aww man... don't tell me it's shut down already?  I'd love to work some AM with the Viker II on 10... it's not the easiest transmitter to get purring up here but darnit, I have her purring!

John

Basically for now as of 5:09 PM EDT but check back later. You might be surprised. There's also a nightly net on 29.02, I believe, somewhere around the Wisconsin area.

I have another 90 minutes or so.  I play a move in Chess, strum a few chords on the guitar and call a few CQ's

Not necessarily in that order.

John, I think the deal is that 10 is open.....if you have a yagi or three up on a tower.  I tried it with my dipole at 35 feet and was SOL.

Nah, I've made contacts, just not making them today.  If beams and amps are required... I don't consider that "open"... it's either opening or closing!

Seeing how I only have about 45 minutes left before time for work, I've moved to 14.338 in hopes of snagging an AM qso or three... so far just sidebanders up and down from me.

My contacts today were via my SteppIR ground mounted vertical with 48 radials. I don't have any type of beam/tower due to HOA CCRs. I think it is more of being at the right place at the right time with others also being there as well. When I was working 29 Mc, the beacons below were as strong as S-7 in some cases. As we all know when six and ten are open, they are open even with the most modest station.

At 7:20 PM, EDT, stations coast to coast are reporting Sporadic E and Multi-hop E activities on 10 meters. MUF is roughly 69 MHz.

Oh I just tried during the wrong two hours this afternoon.  I had to scoot of to work.  I even CQ'ed AM on 14.338 for a half hour, no joy, then moved down to 7.290 and I could hear Dave W9AD in the noise probably chatting with someone else.  Couldn't quite make out everything he was saying.

No AM this 4th for me :(

Ten is open.....

hola hola hola         qrzed

No one comes back on 29.0007 Mc.      But I still have value.

klc

2:45 PM EDT, 10 meters is open coast to coast. Make some noise.

Ten is open.....

hola hola hola         qrzed

 29.0007 Mc.     

klc

Tuned up to 10 meters after 9 PM EDT this evening, 8/21/11. Band is open; beacons being heard coast to coast, and also lots of west coast activity. Nothing heard on AM; no response to any AM CQ's.

interesting news on the sun spot detection front:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/sunspot-081911.html

Lots of 10 meter TEP activity into South America and Sporadic E activity into Europe this afternoon. Listened around the AM section and heard no one. Called a few CQ's on AM; got no response. Went down to the lower section and got multiple responses to my CQ's.

Sheza open now.... the SolarFlux is in the 140's....


klc

O.K. Fine I'll be on 28.310 USB I haven't any thing yet for AM. Could buy a Hot Roded Ranger..LOL
has good Audio like a flex... :)

See ya there...O.M.'seses..LOL

73
Jack
KA3ZLR

the lower part of 28 sounds pretty dead.

No AM? NO excuse.... ..

klc

Hi,
Yes Sir it is...completely Flat I tries Both Amtemmas  :) the Astrock and my Vertical Double Bazooka
But I'm gona leave it there all Day anyone wanto to give it a go I hear ya I'll werk ya. :)


73
Jack

Standing By on 10  :)  28.310 Kcs

10 is crowded today....   lots 'o 7's and 6s....   Victor, pu2lkk, dropped in to say hellow. Nice to hear Brazilian AM.

klc

Heard K2UST at 5/5 this afternoon - but he was beaming west and didn't hear me.

Lots of southern Cal USB stations on this afternoon.  Good signals.  Tried some CQ's on 29.000 AM, but with my PW mobile parked here in the station lot never did raise anybody.  Caught a response, so don't know how it went after about 1845 CDT.

Today, 7:00 PM EDT, 10 meters open from East coast to West coast, Alaska, Japan, Australia, and South America.

slots of West coast to East coast AM on now.

klc

Worked CO8LY this morning [0731 CDT] on 28.408 while driving to work.  Signal very good; reminded me of the late 50's, early 60's on 6M when CO2GX was on almost every day with a 59+ signal.  Went up to 29.000 and called CQ on AM intermittantly for about 5 minutes but heard nothing from 29.000 to 29.100.  Will keep trying when I'm out and around.

Saturday Oct. 1, 2:30 PM Eastern

I have been picking up 10 meters AM activity here north of Philadelphia for a while, just using my scanner and a VHF discone antenna.

I had a nice QSO on 29.000 with KB6KRA near SF.  The band is in great shape.

Hey all..I'll post my happenings here concerning 10mtrs because it's 50/50 for me on the other site..either it works when you hit submit or it don't..tired of sending stuff into cyberspace
            Anyhoo 10mtrs up here in New England has been HOT!!..todays catches include DL9EBO SM4ATA I5KAP GW3UZS all on 29.010 AM..I did run into G3YPZ later on 15mtrs 21.420 AM..and we made a sked for 14.330 on AM..it was a washout as QRM etc got the better of that..incidently I DID hear activity on 14.286 AM..but I'm getting away from this posting which is about 10mtrs and AMing in general......just a refresher guys and gals..our local "gang" meets every morning on 28.351 USB but later around 11:00am EST we go to 29.010 for some AM chit chat..that's usually when the boys from overseas come in..long story short..it's mucho HOT HOT here in New England for 10mtr activity top to bottom..give it a try!            73 de DAVE

10 was just like the old days today. I had 11 AM QSOs across the pond with some very big signals. More tomorrow, hopefully.
John

Lots of activity on 10 meter AM today.  I worked F5DQK, PE2HHN and DK6AO this morning, all of us on low power.  Also heard some UK stations ...

Yes, 10 AM was really hopping yesterday...unfortunately I had to QRT to get some other things done, but had a nice QSO with G3YPZ and M0CHK.  Both were running K3 s  and only 25 watts.
Band doesn't seem to be open this morning, but we will see what happens later.  Those sun spots are making an impact on conditions!

73,  Jack, W9GT

Morning Jack,
There has been a solar flare. signals got very fluttery on 17M and 20 M last night. Ten dead over the pond and 15M the same. I guess it will take a few days to recover.
Glad to QSO yesterday.
73
John

Another fine enjoyable QSO with John, G3YPZ this afternoon.  Conditions held-up for over a half hour and we had a really pleasant chat.  Great to hear 10 AM working so well!

73,  Jack, W9GT

Thanks for a great QSO, Jack,
73 John

John, I enjoyed our chat while I was mobile today on 21.420. I l started to lose you to some qsb and local noise in Cortland, but when I got out on the highway (rt81) you came back up and were easy copy as you chatted with the other fellows. Looking forward to working you again on 15 or 10.

Thanks Kevin. You had a great mobile signal over. look forward to the next one.
73
John

The band is beeping on da lower part, SSB from 28.3 to 28.6...  and nothing on 29.0007.  Whar is anyone?


klc

Talking to Ka5rhk in DeQueen and Kd6os in texas on 29.010

It would be great to work KL7 from the UK. I managed VE6 and W7 this evening at s9 on 29MHz and then did the same on 21.420 at 18:00 utc.
I'll be around on 10M from 11:00utc tomorrow.
73
John G3YPZ