10 metre FM is a weird duck..... there are several simplex channels, but most activity that I know of occurs on 29.600. It remains very quiet where I am- except when the band opens and then its a train wreck of one station on top of another. Fortunately that is quite rare these days-- but in years past when 10 FM was more popular it could be Bedlam whenever the band opened. This summer the squelch rarely opens- but when it does its can be easily a 1500 mile contact.
I never venture onto any 10 repeater- its less painful to poke myself in the eye
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A little known fun spot to keep an ear out is on 29.000 MHz AM. Its a a small niche frequency used by low power AM types - and was made popular as 'the' frequency for converted CB radios ---back in the day when hams did such thing.
I have somewhere a old converted Lafayette CB radio I got at a hamfest that was converted to 10....
When I lived near Washington DC I had it attached to a dipole outside my condo. One evening on 29.000 AM I heard these unusual callsigns with the prefix's "2E1's"
(I think they were 1's) ---
"............what in the world was this?"
With my little 5 Watt toy radio I tried an call--- and Bingo!---one came back to me.
Turns out the 2E prefix were UK Novices and I was talking to England,--- on 5 Watts AM and a dipole.
(Apparently these Novices where restricted to the never-lands of the high ends of 10 metre's.)
10 can be full of surprises
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Lauri
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