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ghutch

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Band was great today....and still open as I type this note!
Europe was hot on 10 meters this morning with a bunch of pile ups on anyone calling CQ and not contesting. Had to hand up the mic until this afternoon and decided to see what was working.....glad I did. 10 meters was on!
Worked QRP from the water front.....finding a open frequency was a challenge.
LU7YZ Argentina
CA7CAQ Chile
VE4TG Canada
JJ2LPG Japan
JA0MVW Japan
YB0NFL Indonesia
JA8COE Japan
VE7WF Canada
All with 5 watts mobile.......heard a ru Russian on 28.485 at 10 over s9 not his call frequency so I was not able to make contact.
Made a 10 watt contact to Canary Islands this morning, and a s Africa Sahara desert station ZS3Y with 100 watts. Good Dx day here, hope y'all have also. 73
 

ghutch said:
Band was great today....and still open as I type this note!
Europe was hot on 10 meters this morning with a bunch of pile ups on anyone calling CQ and not contesting. Had to hand up the mic until this afternoon and decided to see what was working.....glad I did. 10 meters was on!
Worked QRP from the water front.....finding a open frequency was a challenge.
LU7YZ Argentina
CA7CAQ Chile
VE4TG Canada
JJ2LPG Japan
JA0MVW Japan
YB0NFL Indonesia
JA8COE Japan
VE7WF Canada
All with 5 watts mobile.......heard a ru Russian on 28.485 at 10 over s9 not his call frequency so I was not able to make contact.
Made a 10 watt contact to Canary Islands this morning, and a s Africa Sahara desert station ZS3Y with 100 watts. Good Dx day here, hope y'all have also. 73
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All nice contacts for a mobile station. One note;the ZS3Y would not have been in the Sahara Desert but rather the Kalahari Desert. The Sahara is a few thousand miles to the north. ZS3Y is in the southern part of the Kalahari.

This ends today's geography lesson. :biggrin:
 
This morning was good many contacts.....decided to work total QRP this morning? Great contacts I'll update this evening.....10 is/was open wide!<More audio>.....
 
Contacts this morning all QRP 5 watts mobile.....conditions were good. Some pile ups were just to much with the high power stations calling but I managed these. Good luck and good Dx

2013-10-13 15:00:00 OK1CF 10m 28.470 SSB KAREL MATOUšEK Czech Republic
2013-10-13 14:56:00 OE6MBG 10m 28.505 SSB MICHAEL S. SCHWAB Austria
2013-10-13 14:29:00 HB9ZAG 10m 28.520 SSB Marco Mazzei Switzerland
2013-10-13 14:20:00 DL2BHM 10m 28.479 SSB Herwig Mueller Germany
2013-10-13 14:14:00 YO4RIU 10m 28.465 SSB DOBRISAN BOGDAN Romania
2013-10-13 14:05:00 GM4SSA 10m 28.463 SSB HANS HASSEL Shetland Island
2013-10-13 13:55:00 9A9DX 10m 28.507 SSB LJUBO Croatia
2013-10-13 13:43:00 CX9DS 10m 28.507 SSB Uruguay
2013-10-13 13:38:00 EI9JU 10m 28.530 SSB Gerry Mc Laughlin Ireland
2013-10-13 13:18:00 IZ5EBL 10m 28.489 SSB RICCARDO LONDI Italy
2013-10-13 13:09:00 IT9ZVL 10m 28.505 SSB RICCARDO LOMBARDO Italy
2013-10-13 00:50:00 VE7WF 10m 28.425 SSB Rick - Canada
2013-10-13 00:33:00 JA8COE 10m 28.528 SSB TAKA Masaaki Takahashi Japan
2013-10-13 00:23:00 YB0NFL 10m 28.517 SSB ARIEF BUDIMAN Jakarta
2013-10-13 00:09:00 JA0MVW 10m 28.470 SSB TAKASHI KOSAKA. Japan
 
These are 10 meter QRP 5 watts contact this afternoon and evening. the post above is the log from this morning. I'm amazed at what 5 watts can do, several contacts gave me 5/5-5/9 reports. I know conditions dictate the Qso's many times but working the last couple days STAYING at QRP power has really been an eye opener. I turned up during a couple QSO to 70 watts or so to see if they saw any change.....answer was not enough difference, 5/3 up to 5/4 very little.

2013-10-14 01:49:00 VK7OB 10m 28.515 SSB David M O'Brien Australia
2013-10-14 01:07:00 ZP6DYA 10m 28.466 SSB Roberto Rodas Lopez. Paraguay
2013-10-14 01:03:00 JA2FDX 10m 28.505 SSB BEN H. ITO Japan
2013-10-14 01:01:00 JA2DYI 10m 28.505 SSB Japan
2013-10-14 00:59:00 AI6RE 10m 28.505 SSB Donald K Ferguson Ca.
2013-10-14 00:06:00 WB6MIO 10m 28.530 SSB CHARLES A ENGMAN Ca.
2013-10-14 00:04:00 CE3NR 10m 28.530 SSB Carlos Pequeño chile
2013-10-14 00:04:00 CE3NR 10m 28.530 SSB Carlos Pequeño
2013-10-13 23:39:00 PY5/OL4Q 10m 28.510 SSB Brazil
2013-10-13 23:33:00 JA1OJJ 10m 28.521 SSB Yoshi Japan
2013-10-13 23:24:00 YY8HBO 10m 28.485 SSB LUIS CARLOS GUANIPA ALLEN. Venezuela
Try it you will see an added twist to our hobby, 73 good Dx
 
10 has been wide open.....20 is somewhat slow here? I took down a 40 mtr dipole and replaced it with a delta loop....need to cut it some to get it resonant....not sure it's going to stay...depends on where it tunes on the bands.
May turn it into a 2 element moxon ? Experimenting philpoh to get the right wire up for multi band ops....but having a blast on 10 QRP....last club meeting a local ham with 15-20 years QRP did a lecture....has a screwdriver type vertical he uses .....really got my interest due to saltwater/vertical applications and efficiency of vertical adjacent to the saltwater. If the loop? Moxon my expectations...may try a vertical. I've worked some 20 meter dx but with ten being so hot it hard to with the antenna issues...
I will in time get it all sorted out.
 
Last couple days the ones I logged all QRP.....I'm really getting into the mode?
Work the Russian station tonite QRP....recalled him a few minute later with 70-100 watts....signal only went up s5 to s6...1 unit made not difference to him! Really good contact we the Cyprus contact was a QRP to QRP this morning. Listened tonite to a Philippine station and several Australian/New Zealand and multiple Japan ops. Few European station heard today
UA0LLF 10m 28.525 SSB Stanislav E. Myslivets asiatic Russia
9W6ZIM 10m 28.485 SSB Mohammed Faiq Fadhlullah Asli 5B4AHN 10m 28.505 SSB
KJ7QT 10m 28.505 SSB JAMES D MITCHELL
JE1LET 10m 28.555 SSB MASAHIKO
ON4UN 10m 28.467 SSB JOHN DEVOLDERE
KG7FCD 10m 28.515 SSB
NO6Z 10m 28.515 SSB John L Higgins
TI2ERS 10m 28.515 SSB ERIK ROY
VA3ES 10m 28.515 SSB Edward Sieb
W1DQD 10m 28.515 SSB PHILIP I THOMBS
VE7FLS 10m 28.515 SSB Brian Hetherington
VA3MPM 10m 28.515 SSB Michael Myers
K7HLN 10m 28.515 SSB ROBERT L SOLOMON
VE3OJN 10m 28.515 SSB Melvin J Massia
KC7H 10m 28.515 SSB Bruce A Fortune
VA3RDC 10m 28.515 SSB Darrell Raymond Cooper
VE3IKV 10m 28.515 SSB Peter Helmuth Csanky
PU2NZA 10m 28.515 SSB
 

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