Caught a 10 meter repeater out of Switzerland !!!

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WOW.. when I first saw your thread I thought no biggie 10 meters from Switzerland.. then I read.. repeater!! Amazing
 
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We are nearly dead-center to a massive sunspot group (AR2916, I believe) that has been flaring very heavily. The flux is around 216, last I checked.

10m skip is very hard to predict - even harder when it's 10FM. Get 'tm while you can. Mike
 
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ka3jjz said:
We are nearly dead-center to a massive sunspot group (AR2916, I believe) that has been flaring very heavily.
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I actually saw said sunspot group yesterday as I was viewing the eclipse through my welder's glass. It was right in the middle of the sun, and just a little below the 'equator'.
 
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That was group AR2192, not AR2916. And the flux is up slightly...

This is one time I wish I had 10FM in my car...Mike
 
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I caught it again this morning. A guy from Ohio was taking to a guy from Germany on it. Nuts....

Also, I held a long QSO through the 29.620 NY repeater today using only an MT1000 hand held.

KS to NY on a Motorola 6 watt handheld is just insane.
 
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I have an MT1000 low split 99 ch top display that I dragged out of the garage and somehow it held a charge. It was already programmed with the repeaters so I charged it last night and today I put a long telescopic on it and gave a call. I ended up being solid copy into the machine.
 
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Does it do tone burst? If it does, well, who knows...that's why some folks love 10...Mike
 
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mancow said:
Who are you asking? As for me I didn't have any special tones set up.
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He's talking about single-tone repeater access. European repeaters used to use it pretty commonly instead of CTCSS: 1750 Hz at 300-500 ms pre-key. I think the MT1000 might support single-tone operation, so there you go.

Wish I had seen this during the "magic weekend"... working a European 10M repeater would have been pretty neat.
 
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I've been working the NY 10m repeater with 1 watt from my KX3 from both TX and CA, so when 10m is open you don't need much.
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mancow said:
I caught it again this morning. A guy from Ohio was taking to a guy from Germany on it. Nuts....

Also, I held a long QSO through the 29.620 NY repeater today using only an MT1000 hand held.

KS to NY on a Motorola 6 watt handheld is just insane.
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