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Join in with the fun of the Charlie Tango DX Group Summer 10m Challenge - from April 1st 2024
Call Sign : 163CT777, 163RC777 163FB777, JR131, ex 163LR001 Posts : 643 Times Thanked : 27 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Flintshire, N Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT2000d, Kenwood TS 2000, Heil mic, 5 ele yagi Age : 68
Subject: Re: 10m Dxcc summer challenge Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:37 am
1 point for each dxcc well done guys im still on 0 here, off to the shack in a min and staying there lol
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Kaosss CT Directors
Call Sign : 163CT777, 163RC777 163FB777, JR131, ex 163LR001 Posts : 643 Times Thanked : 27 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Flintshire, N Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT2000d, Kenwood TS 2000, Heil mic, 5 ele yagi Age : 68
Call Sign : 163-CT-220...MW7TTA Posts : 2516 Times Thanked : 69 Join date : 2019-11-19 QTH or Location : Anglesey North Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT-991A,,Yaesu FTDX-10,,Icom ic-7300,,Anytone AT-D878UV PLUS",,LINCOLN II+. Age : 150
Don't think the propagation is in our favour this year
John H Major contributor
Call Sign : 26-CT-3352 G0DNV, 26SW214, Jolly Roger820 Posts : 287 Times Thanked : 5 Join date : 2020-02-12 QTH or Location : Barnstaple, Devon Equipment Used : Homebase: FT891, T2LT, end-fed multi band wire. Mobile Yeticom Optima, KL203 & tank whip Age : 68
Give it another month or so and the Sporadic E will be with us, we’ll get plenty of Europeans then, and when it’s strong maybe some double hops a bit further away.
Kaosss CT Directors
Call Sign : 163CT777, 163RC777 163FB777, JR131, ex 163LR001 Posts : 643 Times Thanked : 27 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Flintshire, N Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT2000d, Kenwood TS 2000, Heil mic, 5 ele yagi Age : 68
Once that propogation kicks in though they'll be no stopping me!
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Alan Pilot Major contributor
Call Sign : 163-CT-220...MW7TTA Posts : 2516 Times Thanked : 69 Join date : 2019-11-19 QTH or Location : Anglesey North Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT-991A,,Yaesu FTDX-10,,Icom ic-7300,,Anytone AT-D878UV PLUS",,LINCOLN II+. Age : 150
Got 1 of the twins scanning all day for the last 2 days and still nothing lol. Victor I knew i needed a second radio for something. Even programmed it to put a call out for me.
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Victor CT Directors
Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 5803 Times Thanked : 352 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Ah, you knew having twin radios would make sense Alan.
I don't even change bands on the FT anymore, just take a quick scout on the webSDR's to see if there's a flurry on the waterfall. God I'm gonna come last on this aren't I?
It's as old Roy Castle used to say, "Dedication is what you need!"
(Us old farts will laugh at that and the young'uns will say, "Who the f*** is Roy Castle!" )
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Kaosss CT Directors
Call Sign : 163CT777, 163RC777 163FB777, JR131, ex 163LR001 Posts : 643 Times Thanked : 27 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Flintshire, N Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT2000d, Kenwood TS 2000, Heil mic, 5 ele yagi Age : 68
Well I'm still on nowt and bound to stay that way for a little while....
....my Yaesu gave up the ghost.
Spent all day on it and finally got receive back but still no TX. Fingers crossed I'll be able to repair it.
(Sodding thing just stopped transmitting all of a sudden and then went deaf - been tracing and stripping diodes ever since!)
Alan Pilot Major contributor
Call Sign : 163-CT-220...MW7TTA Posts : 2516 Times Thanked : 69 Join date : 2019-11-19 QTH or Location : Anglesey North Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT-991A,,Yaesu FTDX-10,,Icom ic-7300,,Anytone AT-D878UV PLUS",,LINCOLN II+. Age : 150
Again new to this but is there a specific calling frequency on 10 meters? I mainly give a call and scope about on 28.400 but never get anything
Alan Pilot Major contributor
Call Sign : 163-CT-220...MW7TTA Posts : 2516 Times Thanked : 69 Join date : 2019-11-19 QTH or Location : Anglesey North Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT-991A,,Yaesu FTDX-10,,Icom ic-7300,,Anytone AT-D878UV PLUS",,LINCOLN II+. Age : 150
Same as me 28.400 and silence. Programmed my 991a to talk for me so calling is so easy just touch a tab on the screen so calling loads.
Cor that's cheating haha nah that's a smart bit of kit
BigTone Contributor
Call Sign : G8YMW or 26CT4498 Posts : 92 Times Thanked : 17 Join date : 2019-07-16 QTH or Location : Lincoln and Finningley Equipment Used : CRT 9900, Icom 705, Kenwood TS570, Icom 910 Age : 69
28.400 is a bit low, you would be better going around 28.500. However there is only FM with a calling frequency (29.600) For ssb, scan around. Today SO1WS was on 28.460.
Today at 5:03 pm by Nightprowler
Subject: Re: 10m Dxcc summer challenge 
