Caught a 10 meter repeater out of Switzerland !!!

[mancow]

I was reviewing the Proscan recordings from today's amazing lowband opening and found a recording of HB9HD on 29.650 out of Switzerland. That's just nuts.

https://soundcloud.com/mancow-1/10-23-14-0759-29650a

 

[joeuser]

I was reviewing the Proscan recordings from today's amazing lowband opening and found a recording of HB9HD on 29.650 out of Switzerland. That's just nuts.

https://soundcloud.com/mancow-1/10-23-14-0759-29650a

Nice catch!

 

[VE3RADIO]

WOW.. when I first saw your thread I thought no biggie 10 meters from Switzerland.. then I read.. repeater!! Amazing

 

[mancow]

It's back on this morning with guys talking German.

 

[ka3jjz]

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

 

[mancow]

BZ is way negative too so that helps.

 

[N9JCQ]

Working 10 meter repeaters is a blast. I used to do it with my old Icom 735.

 

[jhooten]

Ten has been cooking since sunup this morning.

 

[eorange]

We are nearly dead-center to a massive sunspot group (AR2916, I believe) that has been flaring very heavily.

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'.

 

[ka3jjz]

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

 

[eorange]

Ah, so it was. Nonetheless... :lol:

 

[ka3jjz]

Since we have the callsign, I google'd it and came up with this...

HB9HD Hochfrequenz Digitalgruppe Oberneunforn  Home of the 10 meter repeater HB9HD

Most importantly it gives the tone burst freq - if you can send that, you might catch a few Swiss hams...

And at 6000+ foot elevation...damn, that's high...Mike

 

[mancow]

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.

 

[scannermanner1]

Ok now I'm interested in 10m more then ever before

 

[mancow]

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.

 

[ka3jjz]

Does it do tone burst? If it does, well, who knows...that's why some folks love 10...Mike

 

[mancow]

Who are you asking? As for me I didn't have any special tones set up.

 

[motorola_otaku]

Who are you asking? As for me I didn't have any special tones set up.

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.

 

[prcguy]

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.
prcguy

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.

 

[mikepdx]

HB9HD Hochfrequenz Digitalgruppe Oberneunforn* Home of the 10 meter repeater HB9HD

Interesting.
That euro repeater is Narrow band FM, peak deviation 2.0 kc