Interesting!  I've looked in at various times today.  Heard the northwest, 
(Washington state and B.C.) late this morning eastern time and the west 
coast this afternoon.  Both were very strong but heard only that one area 
each time.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: 10 meters very strange this morning


> conditions weren't awesome this morning, but the band broke open at about
> 9:30 mountain time and I worked most of the north eastern states.
> propagation swung steadily south through the morning, and by 11:30, I 
> wasn't
> hearing any thing from the 1, 2 or 3 call areas anymore...all 4's and 5's,
> the Caribbean  and south america by noon or so.
> Worked several CE3's and CE5's etc.
> I only played for about 2 and a half hours, but I got around 80 stations
> logged.
> Conditions were definitely a little bit odd today with the really fast 
> swing
> from the north eastern US and eastern Canada, down the eastern seaboard 
> and
> into georgia and Florida all within about 2 hours...and a complete swing 
> so
> that there was no 4 area stations heard at 10AM, and no 1 or 2 area 
> stations
> heard by 11 or 11:30.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 9:01 AM
> Subject: 10 meters very strange this morning
>
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> Well, I'm chomping at the bit to play in the 10-meter contest today, but
>> so
>> far, this morning, I've only heard one station.  xe2B from Mexico on the
>> CW
>> portion of the band at around 28.030.
>>
>> Sure hope things open up a little later.
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ