Ten is open again today. Just worked d44ac in Cape Verde with 100 watts 
and a vertical.
colin McDonald wrote:
> hey all:
> well, as has been my habbit of late, I've been checking the 11M band  to 
> hear if there are any openings on that band and therefore openings on 10M as 
> well.
> 11 was wide open to the south eastern US and mexico from northern alberta, 
> so I checked 10M.
> There was no voice traffic that I could hear, then again I don't have a 10M 
> antenna of any kind here.  I use my 40M ham stick to listen on 10 and 11 and 
> it seems to receive reasonably well.
> anyway, KH7C from Hawaii was blasting in around 28.0035 peaking at around S9 
> on cw.
> He was sending very quickly so it took me a while to figure out his call but 
> once I did I went and looked him up on qrz.com.
> He's located on one of the smaller hawaiian islands on an old 30 acher AM 
> broadcast station site.  The ground system is still there and he's got two 
> sets of 120 radials 350FT long...so an exceedingly good ground system.  He's 
> active mostly on 160 and 80/75M, but he must have gotten something pretty 
> decent up for 10M as well since he was the only station I could hear on 
> voice or CW on the entire band.
> Now I know that with my settup, a station has to be pretty strong and the 
> conditions have to be relatively good for me to hear anything on 10.  I was 
> quite surprised that there was no other traffic on the band since it had to 
> be wide open across north america bassed on the cb band conditions.
> I am guessing that no one has yet begun to check or call cq on 10M because 
> the propigation has been so poor for the past few years.
> It looks as though the cycle is beginning to ramp back up a bit with 11 
> being open from about noon until 5PM daily.
> it's been consistently noisy for the past week or so here.
> So perhaps those of you with 10M capability should start checking and 
> calling on 10 and 12M to see what you can scare up.
>
> anyone else had success on 10 or 12 in the past week?
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX 
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