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10m wide open!
26 September 2012 | by Ten metres has been wide open today. Stations have been heard or worked in just about all directions. I ran 2 watts of WSPR during the periods that I wasn’t in the shack and the program screen resembled 30m!
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| WSPR spots on 10m at G4ILO, 26/9/2012 |
After a short period of WSPR I switched to voice mode and made a nice SSB contact with Ken, JA2FJP near Nagoya (nothing to do with cheap Chinese antennas!) After a rubber-stamp contact with R100BG I found phone a bit hard going with all the QRM and pileups so I retreated to the more restful pastime of working digimodes.
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| Digital stations hrd/wkd at G4ILO, 26/9/2012 |
I made one more Japanese contact – with JI4POR – and made my first-ever China contact – with BG8GAM – all on PSK31. I heard several more stations from those countries and also one from Korea (South, presumably) and one from Indonesia but didn’t manage to work them. Better luck next time!
A session of calling CQ produced an endless succession of Russian stations. Where do they all come from? There is no chance of working interesting DX unless you search and pounce on the DX stations. Even when calling a specific DX station I was being called by Russian stations! Why do they do it? I lost the chance of a couple of first contacts because of it.
As the afternoon wore on many stations from North America and Canada started to be in evidence. My final PSK31 contact for the day was with Bob KZ0G in Missouri which is probably a first for that state for me.
Not a bad haul for a few hours listening / operating using a maximum of 40 watts PSK31 to an attic dipole. I wish there were more days like that!
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Everytime I see 10 meters is open I wish my ten meter station was up and running! urgh!
Caleb,KK4DDX
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Played on HF for the first time since 2003. Used an FT-817 with 5W SSB and a 10m vertical-ish wire. Worked Minnesota, Ukraine, Holland and Greece (5W both ends).. Couldn’t break the pile ups to the North America Pacific or Japan. Great listening though! 73, Rob.