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Author Topic: Actual activity on 10 meters earlier today, Woop Woop  (Read 1911 times)

Offline BoomboxDX

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Actual activity on 10 meters earlier today, Woop Woop
« on: October 21, 2013, 0353 UTC »
I tuned the SW up to the higher bands today, and heard maybe 15-20 CW beacons in the beacon section of the 10 meter band, most of them coming in from the SE US., and there were a couple CW QSOs going on near the bottom of the band as well.

Usually 10 meters is dead, dead, dead.
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Re: Actual activity on 10 meters earlier today, Woop Woop
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2013, 1019 UTC »
October seems to be 11 meters month. Last year was booming as well.
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Re: Actual activity on 10 meters earlier today, Woop Woop
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2013, 2012 UTC »
Heard some 10m CQ voice calls over the weekend. Probably contesting.

I also briefly caught a 10m FM repeater. Did not log it, though, so I am not sure on location.
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