VK/JA?

[n1eu]

Any recent VK or JA activity on 10M AM heard stateside?

I had a very nice qso with Ted 4X1TS at 1340Z today.

73, Barry N1EU

[Steve - K4HX]

The JAs were prominent and loud down the band on SSB last evening. So I gave it a try around 29 MHz on AM. Nothing. But I'm kinda PW.

[W2VW]

Dunno about JA.

VK4VN calls CQ on 29000 any time from 23:00z on according to my log.

[Steve - K4HX]

Lots of far east stuff heard on slop bucket in recent days at and post sunset. Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Kiribati, Philippines among the countries heard, along with the usual JA and VK stuff. Seems JA would be possible on AM.

The good times might continue. From the most recent ARRL Propagation Report:

Solar activity increased over the past week, with average daily
sunspot numbers rising from 129 to 135.6, while average solar flux
increased by nearly 13 points to 154.3. This compares the recent
March 20-26 period with the previous seven days, March 13-19.

The latest predicted solar flux from the current 45 day forecast has
10.7 cm flux values at 145 on March 28-29, 140 on March 30 through
April 2, 135 on April 3-4, 150 and 155 on April 5-6, 160 on April
7-8, then 155, 150, 145 and 140 on April 9-12, 145 on April 13-14,
150 on April 15-17 and 145 on April 18. Solar flux peaks at 160 on
April 22 and again on May 4-5.

[Pete, WA2CWA]

My last JA AM contact on 10 was back in December. I think my last(and only) ZL contact on AM was also in December. I tried several times recently on 28.305 but the "roger beeps" over there were just at my noise level. SSB contacts to the Far East on 10 are common so the propagation is there. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of activity above 29 MHz from over there.

[Chuck...K1KW]

I worked a few JA's earlier this month but I went up to the FM portion around 29300 and got a few to try AM lower in freq.  They were running 10W.

There seems to be more FM than AM activity in JA on 10M

[Pete, WA2CWA]

I worked a few JA's on FM (above 29.3 or 29.4), I think, back in January.

[W2VW]

I worked a few JA's earlier this month but I went up to the FM portion around 29300 and got a few to try AM lower in freq.  They were running 10W.

There seems to be more FM than AM activity in JA on 10M

Try 28.305. There are layers of JAs on AM there when the band opens.