Yesterday afternoon, just a bit before the Blind Hams net, I was 
tinkering on 10 meters in the JARTS RTTY contest.   Worked a couple of 
W7's, a VE7, and heard a Hawaii station.     When he finished his QSO, 
he moved, so it wasn't his freq and I didn't hear him again.    I was 
running about 70 watts into a low dipole, from just outside of Philly.

73, Steve KW3A

On 10/18/2010 8:21 PM, 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