10M open

[KC9ECI]

I'm working a nice opening around 28.400, mostly into TX and I'm also seeing lots of spots for 6M and a few for 2M...get on the radio folks!

[ve2nsm]

Hear a lot of beacon activity down here too.

[KC9ECI]

It's official, the band is open...6M anyway, I just worked Justin, N5BO, both phone and on the striaght key.

[KB3LIX]

DEAD, DEAD, DEAD here !

Both 10 & 6, nothing except background noise.

Checked beacon segments too, nothing on 10 and N3LL in Bridgeville PA on 6. I hear N3LL all the time, it's only about 10 miles from me.
Must be running N-S, isn't going anywhere near here.

[WA5KRP]

I'm working Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois.


WA5KRP
Texas

[VE3EN]

Nice to work you, FB on 6.. worken em left and right here. 73 DE VE3GIB

[KC9ECI]

Quote[/b] (VE3GIB @ May 14 2006,20:17)]Nice to work you, FB on 6.. worken em left and right here. 73 DE VE3GIB
Ditto. Once I got the beam turned to the North, your signal picked right up. I caught you off the back of the beam. Band seems to have faded here now. Typical. I had to call the 2M Sunday night net here and when it was over, so too was the band opening in this area!

[VE3EN]

FB.. yeah... nice sig.. here is the google earth map, showing 2 distictive Es clouds area.. and the spots for 6m.

also linked here for larger view.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3gib/es3.jpg

Cheers
VE3GIB

[kc2jga]

*#&!@#& I don't have my #(*!$#@ 6mtr beam up!!! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

[KC9ECI]

Quote[/b] (kc2jga @ May 14 2006,20:39)]*#&!@#& I don't have my #(*!$#@ 6mtr beam up!!! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
Build a dipole fast! If the band is open you can work it on a bit of wet string!

[KB3LIX]

I'm fresh out of wet string.......Figures !

[ai4ep]

...is it ok to talk to 0 land with your 3 element beam turned toward the East Coast from Alabama, using about 30 watts on 50.130 usb ?

No I aint done it yet, I was just wondering if it is ok to do it.

[KC9ECI]

No. It isn't permitted Robert. But that's just a rule for you. Shouldn't you be out trapping possums to sell at Dayton about this time of the evening instead of posting on the net or playing on the radio?

[ai4ep]

Oh...almost forgot...have to get ready to go to Dayton...

THANK YOU for reminding me.

[w8cbc]

I heard a fair bit of activity in 6 but couldn't get through. EM04 and EM16.

10 was very strong into Texas and Oklahoma from here. I banged a 59+ into EM05 before I went up to 6 to get frustrated.

Here=EM79.

I also heard a very strong signal from west Texas in 17 metres. I think that was Es as well as the rest of the band was essentially silent.

[ve2nsm]

My 20' boom 6 elements is going up the tower soon, look out for FK58 http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[VE3EN]

Hope carib opens up here on 6 soon.. same with EU.. last may 27, worked into europe.

[KE5FRF]

OK I'm going to take the plunge and try tuning up my antenna and rig for 10 meters and call CQ down in the CW segment. I don't hear much, but here goes nothin'


I'm on 28.048.5 calling CQ if someone wants to point there beams to louisiana and give it a shot.

[KC9FSH]

I wish I didn't move this weekend. Figures I monitor 6m for the past 4 months and hear nothing...then the weekend I move and don't have any antenna's up the damn band opens.
Oh well atleast at the new QTH I can put up my beams http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

5 element 6m and 11 element 2m. Should be fun once I get those things up

73,
Tim
KC9FSH

[KB3LIX]

For a change, I heard 2 beacons on 10 this afternoon around 2030 UTC. NEVER hear any beacons....NEVER !

Tried calling CQ on 28.400 a bunch of times.

NOTHING.......NOTHING.......NOTHING !!

At the same time, there was a LITTLE activity on 11, and I do mean a LITTLE, one bigmouth from God knows where, screaming his lungs out and saying nothing intelligeable. SSDD on 11 meters.

At least I tried.

[ai4ep]

I never did understand the folks who whistle in the microphone while tuning up...

say a word --- test, audio, alabama.

say a group of words --- rubber baby buggy bumpers ---3 times real fast.

you have seen a baby buggy, the buggy had bumpers on it on the front and the rear, the bumpers were made of rubber. Therefore you had rubber baby buggy bumpers.


But dont whistle in the microphone to tune a radio, it makes you sound like you may be calling your puppy dog out from under the front porch.

No, wait, go ahead, it reveals how smart the microphone operator is.

[KC9ECI]

6 is open in EN44 now.

[KB3LIX]

Heard more beacon activity on 10 at about 0000 UTC. Tried CQ on 28.400 until 0025 until I had to QSY to 2 meters for the weekly club net. I'm NCS.

Again, NOTHING on 10 meters.
One of these days, I'm going to get a surprize reply. And abruptly FAINT !

[w8cbc]

I haven't heard a darn thing beyond local in 6 or 10 since that Es opening Sunday night.

[kg4kww]

VE3GIB the link you posted on Page 1 doesn't work and I have gas.

Nothing heard here on 2 ssb.

[KC2ESD]

I heard two 9 Land beacons today 5/17/06 14:00EDT and one 2 land beacon. Well the 2 lander I discovered real quick was just 3 miles away. LOL http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[KB3LIX]

Well,
I guess its time to FAINT !
Trolling around the 10 meter beacon band, I heard a weak beacon at about 2100 hours local or 0100 UTC. Call was WB0FTL/B in EN-33FP. (Hope I got the call correctly) Looked up the grid square, it was either Northern Iowa or Southern Minnesota. My grid square map is quite poor, so I couldn't really tell.

Anyhow, called CQ on 28.400 and LO and BEHOLD ! I got a reply from an op in South Dakota. 10 does work !
Just have to find the right conditions to use it.

As Gomer used to say:
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise !

If you don't know who Gomer is, too bad.
It's for me to know, and you to find out !

[w8cbc]

Hmmph.

6 and 10 were as dead as most of the Kennedys when I got home. I've had 50125U on, squelched, since. Not a peep.

[ve2nsm]

10 opened a little around 8 local time, but nothing violent, I know that about half an hour ago a path developped on 10m between Quebec and NC though... according to my friend VE2SNK

[AK7V]

Nothing open up here on 10m yesterday early evening. #I tried some CW and listened for KB3LIX on 28.400 but no luck.

[KD6NIG]

Heard a bit of 6 last night, but they couldn't hear me. I was only running 20W though, the neighborhood I live in has many TV antennas still up and in use, a good portion of my neighbors are above the age of 60, don't want to cause TVI.

Was really strong on my 6m vertical around 5:30pm, managed to make a contact in Southern California, and I heard Arizona and Oregon around 7:45 on the horizontal loop, but very faint, and they definetely didn't hear me.

Was some spots saying some eastern DX from Nevada outward, but that dang Sierra Nevada was in my way. If I would have still heard stuff after 9 I probably would have increased power a bit since most everyone would have been in bed at that point.

I was surprised to get a SSB contact on the vertical, but whatever works http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[w8cbc]

I managed to hit three east-coast 10-metre repeaters last night. All at the same time; I was aiming for just the one. Nobody was answering at 29600F or 28400U.

[KB3LIX]

Heard a few 10 meter beacons this afternoon, around 1800 UTC, one on or about 28.211, too weak to pick out a call and a second KC9GNK/B on 28.283 or so.

Called CQ on 28.400 and got two replies from Wisconsin. Nice to hear someone/something other than background noise.

Maybe this e-skip thingy is real !

[ve2nsm]

Let me know if anybody hears the 11m repeaters that we have here in D.R.

I would like to have some reports http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

27.600, 620, 660

[K0RGR]

I worked a couple 4's on 10 last night, and heard a lot more.
Didn't hear anything on 6, though.

Kevin - I would like to see the larger version of your map, too.

[KD6NIG]

Made a contact in Denver, Co last night on 6. #The opening I think only lasted about 15 mins though. #Talked to him, heard someone talking to him one grid square over, and during that he started fading. #Was almost gone when they signed 73.

I had to grit my teeth, say what the heck, and turn it up to 100 though to get him. #He didn't hear me at 50 so I went full bore. #I hope I didn't TVI, if I did it wasn't for long, was only a 4 minute contact. #But he was surprisingly loud.... so I went for it and talked to him for a minute. Was pretty late though, after 9pm, so it may not have been an issue.

Except for a packet contact (which wasn't direct) I think thats my longest HR contact thus far..... I'm definetely going to keep checking it, and checking the beacon thats nearby. I checked it out at 8:30pm and it was the loudest I had ever heard it, then 30 mins later roughly got the contact.

The HP1RCP beacon at 28.177 booming in here solid right now, about 22:00 UTC. Only signal on the band.

[KB3LIX]

Fair opening from SW Pennsylvania tonight to
Maine, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, UP of Michigan, NC and Florida.
Also heard and brought up the W1OJ 10 meter repeater near Boston. I'm not sure of the protocol on a 10 meter repeater, so I used the same kind of call as I would use on 2 meters.
KB3LIX near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania listening.
Did this several times, and yes, I remembered to use NBFM.
No replies.
Beter luck next time.

[w8cbc]

W1OJ was one of the three I hit the other night.

I heard a 4 fade in and back out in Six (50125U) a bit over an hour ago.

[ve2nsm]

I now have my SB14 installed on the car so I should be ready for 6m. If only I cant get the SWR down in the bottom part of the band http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[NN3W]

Definate opening on E-skip northwest last night. First hop was to the U.P. and the second hop took me out to Washington state.

[ai4ep]

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif Yep 50.125 and 50.130 was very very very active last night.

Even talked to a qrp station somewhere in the N E area...running 2 and a half watts on one of those small YEASU rigs...best part was --
he was on a vertical antenna
I am on a horizontal beam

I was running maybe 35 - 40 watts
he was running 2 and a half watts at the most

yet I had a s-7 / s-9 signal on him the entire qso.

BUT I do not have qsl cards, and he has not a valid e - mail address with qrz ( he aint changed / updated it ) so I cant contact him to send him paperwork of our contact.

oh well

AI4EP (Robert) http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

--keep your e - mail address current here on qrz so when / if some one needs to contact you, that they CAN --

[NN3W]

There was a secondary opening up to eastern VE2 as well on 10.

[KI4FCP]

On 6 im hearing EL83 of Havana Cuba 3 over 9, but he dont here me LOL

[ai4ep]

50.125 USB as of around 9;30 am central time

Colorado / Oklahoma / New Mexico all got to talk to E M 64 ( new grid square for 2 of the 3 stations ).

Also a Havana Cuba station heard on 50.127 as I left the rig but did not try him.

[ai4ep]

10;15 am central time

50.130

New Mexico 2 times ( one new grid square for one station ) http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

listening to 50.125, quieter than it was an hour ago. No Cuba station, just bits pieces of other stations. It may be active in other areas, but right now in Alabama it is quieter than it was an hour ago, no matter which way I turn the 3 element beam.

[ve2nsm]

AAAAARGH.... I have to put this beam up quick! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

[w8cbc]

I just missed it.

Again.

Grumblegrumblegrumble.

If I go back to Dayton, 6 will open up good and strong while I'm away.

If I stay home today and monitor, it won't open up at all.

Guaranteed.

---edit---

Ah, screw it. I'll go get that 6-metre loop I was looking at.

[N5BO]

Band started out to NE at 6am local time and shifted to W9/W0 for a few minutes. Then it dropped to SFL and some DX stations from FM, FG, CO, HI, 8P etc...Also hearing short stuff to west but no double hop yet.

[ai4ep]

bsr --- go git that antenna ---now--- so tomorrow or next week YOU can be part of the fun when the conditions get great again.

When I walk by the radio, IF I hear something that sounds interesting, I stop and sit down and maybe talk to some one or 3, but I dont sit by the radio waiting for the band to open up...nor do I sit here by the monitor waiting for some one to answer a post I make here on qrz...we all have lives AWAY from the radio and AWAY from the computer. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[ve2nsm]

I'm going mobile now to visit one of my repeater sites.
It's a 45 minutes trip, and I have 6 and 10 capabilities....

[w8cbc]

ep - I went but got other stuff. If I can't figure out how to make a 6-metre loop myself, there's something wrong with me. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[M3KCK]

I worked a few stations on 6m the other evening http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

2 in Italy and 2 in Spain and one in France,
It was nice while the Band was open but unfortunately I was not able to get on there a little earlier and Work some more before it closed!
73
Regards,
Andrew M3KCK

[ve2nsm]

Well, I heard NOTHING! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[w8cbc]

All I'm hearing in 6 is a local working other stations. (grumble)

[ai4ep]

bsr ---try a google or yahoo search

" 6 meter loop "

" 6 meter squalo "

and what ever other word variations you can think of....experiment !!

I checked 6 meters around 5 pm ( so quiet you would think there is no antenna hooked up ), but no telling what may be going on now...or tomorrow.

Me ? I do not rely on the internet for info on wherther 6 / 10 / 2 meter dx is open or not...I just turn on the radio and if I hear something I may try...if not I may ID a time or two , but I do not sit by the rig waiting for the band to open up. Neither should you. In a way, it is like sitting in front of your computer here on qrz waiting for a reply to your previous post...you may get one in 2 minutes, or 2 days later.

But I figger you already know most of that, if not, some one reading this may know now.

Always willing to help in what meager ways I can...what time some one aint trying to pick an argument out of me.

Folks that are nice to me , I can be nice in return to...and the rest have their own history. I figure all amateurs are good folks at heart...they put a lot of work into getting their license ( like I did ).

I think also ( while I am on a roll ) we should quit hassling the folks who are NOT an " extra class " into becoming one. Let folks upgrade as they feel necessary. If they do, they do, if they do not, then with all due respect...THAT is their business and no bunch of words on a computer screen is going to make them upgrade when they are happy right where they are. I upgraded when I got good & ready, and now it is done. Even folks like kg4kww & jty should be treated with kindness, after all, they are nice folks too.

( fan smoke from keyboard, from typing so fast )

So, all in all, I wish we uns could get along a tad bit better here on the internet. After all, it IS Fred s site and if I dont behave, I have to go and problably never return ( cheers from audience ). But I will still have my radio, but I will lose contact with all of you good folks...and THAT is a loss.

( is he through yet ...almost )

So, in closing ...

blah blah blah

AI4EP (Robert)

--now back to our regularly scheduled program, already in progress --- http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[M3KCK]

Quote[/b] (ai4ep @ May 21 2006,02:28)]bsr ---try a google #or yahoo search

#" 6 meter loop "

#" 6 meter squalo "

and what ever other word variations you can think of....experiment !!

I checked 6 meters around 5 pm #( so quiet you would think there is no antenna hooked up ), but no telling what may be going on now...or tomorrow.

Me ? I do not rely on the internet for info on wherther 6 / 10 / 2 meter dx is open or not...I just turn on the radio and if I hear something I may try...if not I may ID a time or two , but I do not sit by the rig waiting for the band to open up. #Neither should you. #In a way, it is like sitting in front of your computer #here on qrz waiting for a reply to your previous post...you may get one in 2 minutes, or 2 days later.

But I figger you already know most of that, if not, some one reading this may know now.

Always willing to help in what meager ways I can...what time some one aint trying to pick an argument out of me.

Folks that are nice to me , I can be nice in return to...and the rest have their own history. #I figure all amateurs are good folks at heart...they put a lot of work into getting their license ( like I did ).

I think also ( while I am on a roll ) we should quit hassling the folks who are NOT an " extra class " into becoming one. #Let folks upgrade as they feel necessary. #If they do, they do, if they do not, then with all due respect...THAT is their business and no bunch of words on a computer screen is going to make them upgrade when they are happy right where they are. #I upgraded when I got good & ready, and now it is done. #Even folks like kg4kww & #jty should be treated with kindness, after all, they are nice folks too.

( fan smoke from keyboard, from typing so fast )

So, all in all, I wish we uns could get along a tad bit better here on the internet. After all, it IS Fred s site and if I dont behave, I have to go and problably never return #( cheers from audience ). But I will still have my radio, but I will lose contact with all of you good folks...and THAT is a loss.

( is he through yet ...almost )

So, in closing ...

blah blah blah

AI4EP (Robert)

--now back to our regularly scheduled program, already in progress --- # # # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
See You are a Nice Chap Robert http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

And I never doubted it,
es 73
Regards,
Andrew M3KCK http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[w8cbc]

I've got into the habit of leaving 50125U - and now 144200U as well - on standby. When one or the other breaks squelch I'll wander over just in time to miss the last bits of it.

There's been a fair amount of activity at 144200U since I brought that 2-metre contraption home yesterday. It's always when I'm busy with something else so, aside from some suspected tropo as one signal faded in and out, I can't say what or where it is.

---edit---

As to the loop, I'm just too lazy to make the effort for what'll probably be a limited result. I plan on a proper 6m yagi once I move and have someplace to put it.

The 2-metre yagi is hanging from the bedroom ceiling. That's how space-limited my situation is here. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KB3LIX]

10 was about as dead here tonight as last weeks mackerel. I heard ONE station in Colorado, but he was very weak.

No beacons either.

11 meters was just SCREAMING at the same time. Not just 27.025, but several different channels. I'm beginning to think the BILLION watt leenyars they all is a us'in has to be ionizing the atmosphere all by themselves, or is that theirselves ?

[w8cbc]

I tried a bunch of times both 29600F and 28400U whilst mobile to and from Dayton both days. Dead silence greeted me. Perhaps most of the 10-metre ops were stumbling around the flea market.

It did strike me as rather odd that the greatest concentration of hams in the world was so HF-quiet.

If I get a table some year, I'm putting up an aerial and operating 10 metres and/or longer. Heck, I have so much stuff I want to get rid of, it may well be next year.

[KB3LIX]

"Short Skip" opening this morning around 0800 local, 1200 UTC.

Pittsburgh to Long Island New York.

Childrens Banders were humming, so I went to 28.400 and heard 2 ops from New York in QSO with several others calling them.
Also heard Northern New Jersey on 20 meters, so that too was an indication that short skip just might be open. I rarely hear NNJ on 20 here, just too close.

I'm also hearing the KC9GNK/B beacon from EN 53 is Wisconsin again this morning. Weak, but easily copyable. Remember, I can't do code for crap, so if I can get the call it has to be very audible.
I gotta work on developing these deaf ears to hear CW better. Feel like I'm missing a lot.

[M3KCK]

6m Open again this morning! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I have worked Italy, Spain & Gibraltar so far.....
es 73
Regards,
Andrew M3KCK http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

10M is Open also.

[N5BO]

6M open here also....some CO, FG, HI, and other DX stations floating around along with lots of signals from the NE US/VE2/VE3.

[w8cbc]

Es in 10m right now, strong but very spot.

I've worked QC and NJ in the last few minutes, hearing many W1 beacons in and out.

[KB3LIX]

6 & 10 are HOT here today.

On 10, Southern Brazil, Tennessee (2) and Georgia.
Main problem here is, I can hear them, but they cannot hear me. They are running (for the most part) an amplifier and a decent antenna system. My 100 watts into a crummy piece of wire just isn't cutting the mustard. Hell, it's not even licking the jar !

On 6, I can't transmit, when I press the PTT on SSB, even on low power, the RF output indicator and the power meter in the tuner.....Hit the PEG. And, this Yeasu draws in excess of 30 amps. Into a dummy, seems to work fine. Must be RF getting in somewhere. Just don't know where.
I even strung up a 6 meter dipole just for grins today, and same indication.

Anyhow, I'm hearing many different grids and even heard N5BO at S-9 + 20 for a minute or two this afternoon. Just cannot try to reply.
I gotta finger this out and right quick !

[KC9GUZ]

I just worked a Kf0K in Fla. today with my meager setup of a 100 watt Icom 746 and a piece of junk homebrew dipole made from an old CB beam. Antenna is only 30' off the ground but it WORKS!! 10 is open as well but as i listen (cant TX until i pass the code) its dying as i speak. But 11 meters is wide open with the linear idiots and of course, CH 6 and 11 and 26 are s-20 and above!!!!

[ve2nsm]

Another good opening tonight between here and VE2 land on 11/10m.

the 27660 repeater was busy as always http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[VE3EN]

KD8BSR.. tnx for the contact on 6m this evening. Today was great on 6m. Lots of US stations.. also worked Guadeloupe FG5FR on SSB and CW, Martinique FM5JC on cw, FM1HN on ssb.. and worked Guatemala TG9NX on SSB. 6m is looking good.

73, GL
VE3GIB

[w8cbc]

6 metres (see the Es spot thread) - STILL open here.

Today I've worked:

FN41, FN25, FN36, FN35 (twice), FN34 and FN32 in the northeast, and EL98, EL99, and EL87 in Florida.

I heard a TG9 - EK44 - but couldn't sneak through the pileup.

I heard, earlier, a couple of double-hops - 1s working 0s - I was between them.

I also heard a very strong signal out of EM40 (Louisiana) but he couldn't hear me.

100 watts? I'm running 80 into a haywired dipole in a crummy location, with an IC-551D that's a little deaf on receive. So, GUZ, your setup is somewhat better than mine. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Anyhow. Ten 6-metre Es contacts in all so far. Today's the first time I've got beyond the neighbouring grid square (EM78 - I'm in EM79).

A good day.

---edit---

GIB - we were both typing at the same time.

I think you're maybe the third QRZ-er I've worked voice. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

That TG9 was probably the same one I heard.

[KC9GUZ]

Well before i went to bed i did manage to work FM-19 and FM-29 quite nicely. Now when the day comes when its nice i will install my 3 element homebrew yagi pus a rotator up on the roof in the place of the dipole..