10 Meter propagation

In the past days,the 10M band is very wide open.

Some weeks ago we had also one day with openings,but the day after it was gone.

Most of the propagation we have on 10M is to Africa or South America.

But in the past 2 weeks the openings changed...

On the 23th of March i managed to work my first station from NA on CW on thje 10M band.

It was N4BP..he was the only one i could hear from NA as well.

During the CQ WW WPX contest i did manage to work also ZS,PY,LU,D4,CE in SSB.

Thoose are the usual DXCC's we get with the 10M openings.

But during the contest i could also work OD,JY and VK6.

At the 29th of March i saw that NH7O (Hawaii) was working EU via Long Path on 10M.

I did put my beam towards 170 degrees and i could hear him very well.

After calling him several times and repeating my callsign,the QSO was made!!!!

My first QSO on ther 10M band with Hawaii was done.What a good propagation...

The same day and the days after i also could get in the log:

BD1EFO (CW) , S21YZ (SSB) , VU2DK (SSB) , VP5/W1CW (CW) , YI9NS (CW) ,

5M2TT (SSB+CW) , 9N&AN (SSB) , ZL1BYZ (CW) , KH2/N2NL (CW) ,

EL2GB (SSB) , P4/W1HEO (CW) , SU1SK (CW) .

Today i got another big new one worked on the 10M...XV1X Vietnam on CW.

I was very happy that Eddy,the op of XV1X,took the time to get me and my callsign correct.

Two days ago i worked also Nand,VU2NKS,with only 5 Watts output on RTTY on the 10M.

For me this good propagation gives me alot of new DXCC's on the band.

Also in the different modes...as i try to work as many DXCC's in as many modes possible for me.

One week ago i also had WSPR running on the 10M band.

I was seen also in NA with only 2 watts.Also i was seen in VQ9...

Propagation is very good and i hope it stays like this and even will get better.

I like the 10M band very much....it's a band that sometimes you hear nothing....

Few minutes later it's wide open.....

10 Meter openings

The 10 Meter band was this year already open a few times.I was able to work some nice DXCC's in several modes.Some of them are also new for me on this band.

Today i managed to work Agus,YB1ALL,on PKS63.A few weeks before i also coult get him in CW already.

Two days ago,on the 15th,i was able to work Bob,VP8LP,for the first time this year on 10M SSB again.The rst i got was just 4/4....but still 100% QSO.

Bob was here real 5/7 with QSB.I stayed a little at his frequenty listening to him and about 30 minutes later he was gone.I coult hear Bob saying that he had the whole morning good propagation to Europe.

After that i was looking over the band and did hear a signal on PSK31...That was VU2SWS Miss Sarla.She was strong here and i also managed to work her.New DXCC on 10M in PSK31 as well for me.

Between the 7th and 11th of March,t

he band was wide open.I managed to work:

* in SSB: VU2DSI , VK6XC , VK6ANC , CX2DK , PY2OE , D2AM , VK8NSB , YB3OX , 9M2IDJ ,

TJ3AY , BD8ASG , UK8OM , VP8LP and HZ1DG

* in CW: 4X/K2LS , LU7HN , 7Z1HL , YB1ALL , 3B8FQ , MD0CCE , E21EJC , BA8AG , BA8BA ,

4K9W , 6W2SC , D2SG , 9J2BO , 4Z5RT , A45XR , 5N7M

During the ARRL DX SSB i was also able to work one NA station,that was W4SVO from Florida.

Propagation was very good,but i also had much QRM on the band.It was mostly S8-9.

So you can see how good the prop was to NA...W4SVO was real 5/9 that time.

The 10 Meter band is a very nice band for DXing.Many HAM's don't like it.....

I think it's because it's not always easy to get a QSO on 10M.

For me the 10M band is the nicest...when there are openings ofcourse.

This morning there where spots of KH7Y,Hawai.I coult hear him very low...too low to try.

One week ago KH2 (Guam) was also strong on 10M in CW.Would be 559 here,but too big pileup.

I really hope that the propagation increases and that the 10M band will be open more and more.

Also during the contest in the weekends....

This weekend is the BARTG RTTY Contest and also the Russian DX (CW+SSB).

Hoping that the Propagation Gods are also good for us this weekend :-)

Propagation and 10M open !!

Yesterday started very well for me.

Propagation was in the morning very good to Hawaii and Alaska over the Northpole.

Could work KL8DX on CW,new one on this mode,and KH6MB on RTTY,also new in RTTY mode.

I was very happy to made this QSO's as it's not easy with 25W to make it in the pile up's.

Around 10:00 i did see and hear that the 10M was open as well.

My first QSO was made with 5F1ROM at 10:22.

After this i made several QSO's with I,EA,F and CT.

Sometimes with real good signals to 5/9++,good to see that 10M opens up.

I like this band alot,as it's not the easiest band to make DX/QSO's.

Propagation is not very good yet,but stil alot of nice QSO's and good DX can be made.

My counter of DXCC's for 2009 of worked stations is now 185.