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[AF9J]

Bummer!

We're too close to each other Jack, unless we both did brute force tropo scatter at the legal limit.  OH well.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[W1AEX]

My little mobile FT-8900 actually does a pretty good job of receiving 6 meter and 10 meter AM. Today, I was tuning around as I was cruising back from Pancake Friday and heard a conversation going back and forth on 50.4 Mhz. I also found one side of a contact on 29.010 Mhz. There was plenty of QSB, and the stations were definitely in old buzzard transmission mode. Unfortunately, my report is incomplete because I did not recognize any voices or catch any call signs exchanged during the 10 minutes or so that I listened. Signals on both bands were plenty loud though and they pegged the S-Meter a few times! Unfortunately, the FT-8900 only transmits on FM, so I could not really (appropriately) throw my call out there, but glad to see the activity!

Rob W1AEX

[AF9J]

Yep Rob,

It sure is a lot of fun doing 6 & 10m AM.  the cool thing about, is that when 6 & 10 are open you don't need a huge antenna, or a lot of power.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[Tom WA3KLR]

I heard short skip on 10 meters AM last evening - It was Nick VE3OWV, west of Ottawa on 29.0 AM at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time.  Good signal, he is 350 miles away from me, north of Philadelphia.

[Tom WA3KLR]

This morning (Saturday) about 10 a.m. I heard Larry NE1S and then AA8XX in Michigan, each calling on 10 meters AM.  Apparently Larry heard AA8XX and then called him.  I don't know if they did QSO though.

Nice audio Larry!

[WA1LGQ]

    Just after NE1S worked AA8XX today (Saturday), I worked him using only 20W from a rice box. Fair amount of QSB at that time, lots of cw beacons coming in. ...............Larry

 

[AF9J]

Not much happening on 10 or 6 at the present time.  I was gone most of the day, to a gathering of AMers in a park near Woodstock, IL.  It was a nice get together.  Some gear was sold. Some was swapped, and some was auctioned off.  Luckily the bad weather (as in severe T-storms),held off until I was on my way home).  I'll keep on listening on 6 & 10M tonight. Dave, W9AD, told me at the AM shindig, that heard me calling CQ on 29.0 (it must have been by backscatter, since he's only about 60 or 70 miles from me), a couple of weeks ago. 

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[AF9J]

Hmmmm,

I didn't hear much on 6 last night.  But,I do know that a couple of Amateurs in the upper midwest, did work the EU opening.  Today, other than a weak "CQ Field Day" from a W4, I haven't heard much on 6.  But, I was gone until after 3 PM, to a gathering AMers in northern Illinois.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[W9GT]

Pretty good opening on SIX yesterday to New England, also to Mid Atlantic and down to Florida.  Lots of Field Day stations on.  I managed to work WA2PJP on 50.4 AM!

73,  Jack, W9GT

[AF9J]

Yeah,

6 & 10 opened up yesterday morning to New England, New York, and New Jersey.  I worked a station in Maine, who was just booming in here on 50.160, at 20 over 9!  Of course Murphy's Law being what it is, I got a phone call, just as things were picking up steam.  By the time I got off the phone, 6 and 10 were dead! <sigh!>

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[AF9J]

Cool!

I just finished a long winded phone call, when I read your post Mark.  Unfortunately 6 isn't open here at this time (10:10 PM). Oh well.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Sounds like you're spending too much time on the phone instead of on Fone, Ellen. 

Jack, congrats on working Joe 'PJP on 6m AM. I can't wait to hear his signal. I'm guessing he was using the Clegg Zeus and Interceptor for the contact? Interesting station there, was purchased new by a fellow in the early 60s and never used, only the receiver was removed from the box, turned on, then repackaged. Even so, Joe had a lot of work to do. Before Timonium, he showed me a bag of 'new' parts from a kit he was getting ready to assemble. Visibly deteriorated despite being in a sealed bag. NOS should be changed to UOS (unused, old stock). Much more accurate.

Gonna string up a temporary dipole for 6 this weekend, just to hear what I'm missing. Virtually no VHF stuff up this way most days.

[K3ZS]

Hearing several AM stations on 29.0 now

[AF9J]

I was just on 29.0 a few minutes ago calling CQ.  I had no responses, but I will be trying off and on throughout the day on both 10 & 6.  I also heard a beacon doing its thing, in the 10m beacon subband, and read on the SMC contest list that 6 was open from New England to the midwest this morning.  So, those two  bands seem to be happening today.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[KF1Z]

Someone's tuning up on 28.992 right now.....

3:30pm Friday the 4th

[AF9J]

I called CQ again.  Nothing so far....

Ellen - AF9J

[Pete, WA2CWA]

10 meters seemed quiet today; no answers to any CQ's  - then, 2 hours later, I realized I didn't have the antenna cable connected, it was on the dummy load - but, hey, I had a great match across the entire 10 meter band - send me to the "home".

[AF9J]

Oops!! 

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[ve6pg]

..lots of beacons, ssb, fm being herd here lately...i've called cq...nothing...
..i noticed last weekend, during field day, that 15 was full of stations...nothing herd since end of field day....sk...

[KB2WIG]

6M is open now, 649 P eastern ....

so is 10m

klc

[AF9J]

6 is  being a teaser tonight - bits and pieces out of FL and SC.  Some SSB, but I'm mainly hearing them on CW.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[AF9J]

The same here Mark,

In and out (altough it's been kind of quiet for the past hour or so).  The station worked - N2WB in EL99 (FLorida) on 50.097 CW.

Ellen - AF9J

[AF9J]

<Sigh!>

[k3sqp]

Just worked Tom W0 TDH (Asheville NC)on 29 , FB sig Om with his 32v3  75a2 4 el beam till
that puffy little  e cloud moved  away...
Frank
K3SQP

[WD8BIL]

Y'all calling on 29.000 or 29.010 ?
Been listening and calling on 29.010 lately.
Had a few Q's with the South over the weekend.