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Loggings => 10/11 meters => Topic started by: shadypyro on April 14, 2020, 2015 UTC
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So looks like 11 meter is wide open on the East Coast, channel 6 is pushing in between +10 and almost to +20. 38 LSB heard Jacksonville Florida and Tennessee. Haven't hear any stations from Jamaica yet.
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Some 10m active too, 28285 @2230z.
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Heard midwest US and Ottawa Canada today... Jamaica on 27560 loud and clear. 27385L sounded like a contest with so many stations trying to work each other.
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1633 UTC - April 15, 2020, the Super Bowl channel 27025 is booming this afternoon along with 27085.
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Yep, 10-11m is roaring today. I'm looking at the strength of the 10m FT8 signals... very good snr's. Freeband looks well populated also. Might see if I can catch some 27.700mhz sstv sigs.
Later on this afternoon, if there's still an opening, I might check to see if the Far Pacific comes in on 10m FT8, as it has on previous openings.
Watching the spectrum on 11m with an sdr... you realize how many really trashy/misadjusted radios there are, ruining the spectrum. So many with the opposite sideband hardly suppressed, overly wide signals with so much "trash" in their bandwidth that they literally destroy 20khz on either side of "center". Oh well, what's new 'eh? ;-)
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well, it's 2043 UTC as the time of writing...
No sstv on 27.7mhz, gave up on that. The strong lsb ssb stations were crowding that freq anyway. FT8 was mostly strong stateside stuff... a little bit of SA, so I moved up into the 10m beacon band to pick up a few loggings.
Dial freq ... 28.183.131 w/600hz offset for cw copy ... XE1RCS/B EK09 2023 UTC
28.209.266 same ... K7EMX/B DN30 XP 3 watts 2030 UTC
28.218.279 same ... KJ4LAA Catural EM64 2036 UTC
Sigs on all the beacons swung from inaudible for a second or two to 579 copy. Much qsb.
So I think it's back to waiting 'till later for some Far Pacific on 10m FT8.
update ... yes, Far Pacific showing up on 10m FT8 ... Fiji .... 232330 -16 0.4 2806 ~ KE3QZ 3D2AG -06
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Open again today. 26MHz going nuts.
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It was open, both 10-11m, but from my N. Texas location, it wasn't as good as the past few days.
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There was north south skip up my way couple days ago, haven't heard any yet might had settle down now.
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Listening to ch38 LSB on the venerable G.E. Superbase and cheesy Tram no-ground CB base antenna. Lots of stations.
Jamaicans are killin' it.
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Open tonight
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I heard 38 lsb a few minutes ago using my PL-600, I heard liquor store being mentioned and I am guessing locals and it gone now