10 and 11 meter DX

[merlin]

Well, 10 meter DX was alive and well most of the day, quite active.
11 meter was in solid, the typical over driven power mongers and loads of out of band chatter.
Ferreted around 6 meters and still hardly anything at all here in south east Idaho.

 

[jwt873]

11 meter was in solid, the typical over driven power mongers and loads of out of band chatter.

I was tuning around the other day.. The CB 'channels' between 26.200 to 27.900 Mhz were all in use

 

[jhooten]

Don't forget to check 12 meters.

 

[sprman1955]

12 meters was alive here in TN as was 10 and 11 meters!6meters here has been DOA for some time last time i heard any activity on 6 meters was november 2022 with cw beacons.

 

[jwt873]

Six meters has been open just about every day since last December. IF you use FT8.

Below is a screen capture I just grabbed from pskmaps.. Display Reception Reports

There are almost 1000 amateur stations around the world running FT8 as I type this. Each red dot on the map below represents a ham station that has heard another station, or has been heard by others on six meters over the last 30 minutes.

This is on 50.313 Mhz.. Listen around 50.125 Mhz for SSB or 50.090 Mhz for CW and you'll hear little or nothing.

 

[merlin]

1600 utc, sitting here now 11m just showing signs of life. A touch of CW on 10. 12m dead.
that 6 meter map is the other side of the world from me, but supposedly some northbound ducting from south America. Weak signal here is forget it for the noise.
Yesterday, there was a bit of FT8/FTS call on 10

 

[GadgetGeek]

11 meter was in solid, the typical over driven power mongers and loads of out of band chatter.

Most but not all.

I just made a contact to England from my mobile in NJ on channel 40 LSB.

Good times

 

[jhooten]

Six meters has been open just about every day since last December. IF you use FT8.

Not around here it hasn't. I only need 6 states to complete WAS on 6M FT8. Haven't seen a blip on the waterfall since mid December.

 

[bharvey2]

I've monitored both 10 and 11 meters over the past few weekends here in the SF Bay Area. Made a few contacts on 10 meters and heard a lot on 11. (I monitor only, no transmit ability) I've heard the same guy out of the Carolinas for several weeks and this past Sunday I heard a guy out of Texas that sounded like he was right next door - He was coming in S9+ and full quieting.

 

[jwt873]

Not around here it hasn't. I only need 6 states to complete WAS on 6M FT8. Haven't seen a blip on the waterfall since mid December.

I just checked PSKReporter (19:30 UTC). It shows most of the US using a trans equatorial opening to work down to South America on Six. (Not much good for WAS). Quite a few Texas stations there. Won't be 'till later in the summer until we see openings like that up here in the frozen wastelands of Canada...