I am glad to see some people are excited about 10 metre repeaters-- I lost all interest in them long long ago. It didn't take much for me to see the lack of utility in what is basically a high frequency band for use by repeaters.
Maybe, just
maybe, when there is no skip a repeater can be useful for extending the radio horizons of miserable low power stations- but 10 is hardly a band that lends itself well to portable HT's or even mobile operations (I cite the antennas for one.)
And then once the band 'opens' all hell breaks loose (aka CB .)
I think in the years I have tried to break thru the bedlam on these ten metre machines I have made only a couple very sketchy contacts- always broken up by QRM. It takes a stronger constitution than mine to even listen to them, let alone try to work DX on one.
But----
Simplex on 29-Six, or the other simplex FM channels is another story. Just last month I answered a KH6 calling "QRZ" on 29.60. We then switch down to 29.580 and had a pleasant chat.
But I repeat, that's simplex.
-----------And don't over look 29.000 AM simplex as well.
Surprises await there.
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OK, so I will applaud you guys with the intestinal fortitude to brave those 10 metre repeaters.
But I just can do the same thing and keep my sanity on simplex. For after all, with a modest station, 10 metre skip is 10 metre skip - no repeaters are necessary.
Lauri
".......for goodness sake Lauri-- send faster !!"
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