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Get Ready for 10 Meters—Cheap & Effective

Discussion in 'Amateur Radio News' started by K8QS, Feb 13, 2021.

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K4PMV said: ↑

Great info.......thanks 73,K4PMV
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Our pleasure, Jim. Quin, K8QS

K8QS, Feb 20, 2021

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Time to dust off those old 10-10 numbers hihi.

N2HUN, Feb 20, 2021

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N2HUN said: ↑

Time to dust off those old 10-10 numbers hihi.
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Right. I just put my number back on my QRZ page. Looking good....
Quin, K8QS
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K8QS, Feb 20, 2021

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A good evening on 10m here , from 51 deg. latitude sporadic E hop(s) out into high MUF F2 contours

M0YRX, Feb 21, 2021

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WB4JHS said: ↑

I think there’s lots of great stories of how all of us got into licensed amateur radio work.

I was probably nine or 10 years old riding my Schwinn bike around St. Petersburg Florida when I heard the heterodyne come out of an old man’s garage and I rode my bike up and said “what is all that stuff” ? And he replied it’s short wave radio. He didn’t have a transmitter but he was a retiree and was listening to all sorts of things. I came back another day to listen and he told me he would give me a working RME 69 receiver if I mowed the grass for the summer and so I did and after mowing later in the summer he trusted me sent me home with his awfully heavy receiver in the basket on my bike and I took 100 feet of wire and hurled it over the roof nailed to a grapefruit that I pulled off a grapefruit tree for a counter balanced weight.

that was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life with all the glowing tubes and hearing radio BBC & Germany and all sorts of places. Somehow fell into finding CB’rs at my local high school and we all started to goof around and then one of my friends got a ticket and an Elmer helped me who was running a TV repair shop to get my novice. I think radio kept me out of a lot of trouble!

Had a 1 watt walkie-talkie my dad bought for deer hunting and I would sit on the roof to talk with people. One of my CB friends bought at an estate sale a Drake TR-3 and basically loaned it to me since he never had time to learn the code. Got my general license after failing it twice for the written but that’s ok.

It was always fun to check in on the crowd on 11m but the ham bands were the best. I’ll never forget listening to some 11M legend brag about his Browning Eagle & Tram Titon and Moonraker. His name was houndog. Legend was that he shut down a CB channel I-95 from Florida to New York when he key'd his D-104...as kids we actually believed him. Often he would ask: “Hey anybody out there have change for nickel?”....model citizen.

He actually died later and the rumor at the high school was that he was buried with the D-104 in his hand across his chest. This is probably where fake news actually began at our local high school class of 1976. It is our fault.

We all can celebrate different pathways to actually getting here...many of us didn’t have much money but we built a station and DX’d a bunch.

Share your story of Americana...Houndog might be listening.

John WB4JHS
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I always like hearing these stories. Certainly a great experience and a fun ride to get to where you are at.

NK0V

NK0V, Feb 21, 2021

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M0YRX said: ↑

A good evening on 10m here , from 51 deg. latitude sporadic E hop(s) out into high MUF F2 contours
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Excellent post, Kevin. Thanks.
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K8QS, Feb 21, 2021

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NK0V said: ↑

I always like hearing these stories. Certainly a great experience and a fun ride to get to where you are at.

NK0V
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Thanks, Kevin. We need to do a show or two on how hams got started in the hobby.
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K8QS, Feb 21, 2021

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10 meter has been opening up randomly this past week. It has been pretty exciting.

AC3LW, Feb 21, 2021

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I heard some actvity yesterday in northern MI, and 15 was almost on fire up here.

N8FF, Feb 21, 2021

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N8FF said: ↑

I heard some actvity yesterday in northern MI, and 15 was almost on fire up here.
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Hi, Chris. I heard stations from the lower part of Michigan as well. Quin, K8QS

K8QS, Feb 22, 2021

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WB4JHS said: ↑

I owed a 10 m CW Beacon but then it got struck by lightning and when I was running it it was a lot of fun to get QSL cards of reception day and night. And I would suggest listen for whatever beacons are still out there. At the right time I’d love to put another one on there.
Where are used to be a beacon at about 28.290 that I would monitor and then once the signals were strong I would go to about 28.305 and Call CQ and what I found is several DX stations were doing the same thing checking that beacon(s) and then when they turn their vfo toward phone into the phone band I will be right there putting out a call. This is back when I was a kid when I had plenty of time! I think when I retire I want to become a kid again!
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The 'WJ50 Beacon list' is still updated weekly. 73, Eric ~n6spp/b, 28.2179 MHz, xtmr:htx-100 in cm96dm~

N6SPP, Feb 23, 2021

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N5TZH said: ↑

10 meters was ready like in the late 50 and again in the 70s 5 watts and ur working dx wish it was like that again
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It was 'like that' last Summer. Now, what would really be cool is if Cycle 25 heats F Prop up enough to wk 10, 24hrs/day! Like a few previous Cycles (or at least way past local midnite). Ps- I have a link to my "10m Detailed Ref Pdf" on my Qrz page if anyone is interested. Note- The 'common beacon catches' are tailored for the SFO Bay Area.

N6SPP, Feb 23, 2021

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KL7AJ said: ↑

I just helped my protege get set up for ten meters with a mint condition Radio Shack HTX-10....which is actually a quite sophisticated radio. We're still waiting for ten to open up, but when it does, said protege will be ready.
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Bravo on the 10M elmering! As far as 10M in KL- Steve in Nikiski ~KL7SB is active. +73, de a former KL7AA Club member(2010-2015, n6spp/kl7).

N6SPP, Feb 23, 2021

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N6SPP, Feb 23, 2021

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Quin, do you think this latest Solar Storm will help 6 or 10 meter propagation (it can't hurt it).
https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov/status/1363634981239590915

AC3LW, Feb 23, 2021

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