10 Meter band open

[jaspence]

10 meters open. Just made contact to Maine on 28.387 running 80 watts into a Minuteman 20 portable antenna.

 

[jaspence]

Band was good until dark. Hope it is the start of a long opportunity. Heard an experienced old timer say it was the best in decades.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Here in Central Florida 29.620 repeater in the Catskills was heard. Apparently some German station was also able to work the repeater.

 

[air-scan]

Sounds like potent Sporadic E, ES. Not really solar influenced because 10.7cm flux been a roller coaster. Was 86sfu then dipped to 72sfu. Solar influenced openings would be more of a all day affair sun up to sun down. Yesterday's ES at my location had 3 peak times with quiet times throughout the day. Primarily early to mid-morning, early noon, and evening to sunset then went quiet.

I observed cancellation at the equator observing SDO AIA HMI Magnetogram watching north and south polarities annihilate each other as opposed to solar minimum I observed North hemisphere south polarity eats north polarity the opposite for south hemisphere. As the solar equatorial cancellation process continues I have been observing slow more steady emergence at mid latitudes. This includes emergence of Polar Crown Filament at 55 or so degrees in a hedgerow oriented in a east to west latitudinal direction.

I assume this current Earth facing side of the sun might be the 1/4th of sun that might start the hemispheric longitudinal growth in sunspot emergence but don't quote me on it. It might be a solar global event.

 

[jaspence]

Many hams don't really care what the cause was. 10 has been bad so long that any contact is an accomplishment.

 

[PlayinMySkip]

10 meters had its days with what I have noticed. Looks like I will stick with 40 for a while. 73's

 

[PlayinMySkip]

I use a Moonraker 4 with a Navajo TRC458 for 11 meter.....otherwise using ICOM 7851 with a Steppir/wire dipole for 3-28. The Moonraker is at rooftop so not to interfere with my Steppir

 

[TexTAC]

10 meters is open again today! Just made a few contacts to Florida from Texas. I noticed on my 991A I had to change the receive preamp from IPO to AMP1/2 in order to hear anything on this band, but once I did, I am able to hear much more activity.

 

[TexTAC]

10m SSB is strong right now with Worldwide DX Contesters. Contacted Costa Rica, Curaçao, Brazil, and Dominican Republic from Texas in the past few minutes and I’m only a quarter way through the band so far. 20m and 40m is a major pileup this weekend.

 

[jwt873]

Isn't it amazing how contests affect propagation on 10 meters Just listening now. South America is booming in.

 

[TexTAC]

Yeah, I added Puerto Rico and Madeira Island and made 3 more contacts to Brazil and one more to Costa Rica since my last post! The lower band is busy from 28.3000 to about 28.6000. Been a fun weekend.

Edited to add : Just added Hawaii which I haven’t ever been able to reach and got him on first try! Here’s a few recent ones …

KH7M 28.46130 (Hawaii)
ZY2A 28.333 (Brazil)
KP4AA 28.3125 (Puerto Rico)
CT9ABY 28.5977 (Madeira Island)
TI0RC 28.50750 (Costa Rica)
PJ2T 28.4340 (Curaçao)