HF Contacts 10m

John H wrote:

I was pleased to finally get across the pond on 10 Metres SSB yesterday to K3MD, in Winfield, PA, yesterday afternoon with just the 2 watts from my Albrecht 2990 handheld and a T2LT vertical.
 
The distance between us was 3418 miles. 

Next challenge for the 2990 is to do the same but with just the telescopic whip attached, as the best distance I’ve managed so far is Italy.
G0DNV, Barnstaple.

So many joke posts and videos around the net yesterday being Apr 1st, I wondered if this was real... But I take it that it was, and so very well done! 2 watts into the US from UK is awesome!

New one again for me.
3D2AJT Fiji (ft-4).

Well think it's intermidate time, heard lots of far away stations, 5 vk's did try for around an hour OK maby 3h but my 10w not cutting it even went up to 25w, but no luck I'll keep trying just the luck of the DX gods not in my favor yesterday, but did get a few good contacts..... Day of work and radio fun, even with no contacts radio better than work lol!!!!!!

Keep at it Jimmy you will get them.
As you say it's down to the DX god's.
Still on 10w did try the 25 for a day or two but just the same so went back to 10.
Some day's i will drop down to 5w and get good results and a bigger smile lol.

Stick with it Jimmy mate, we haven't even had any great conditions yet.
(Unless you got a beam and a few watts up your sleeve. )

I 'popped' my homebrew ATU when I cranked up to 25W yesterday so have had to handwire it fixed for 10m operation for now. As Alan says there's a certain thrill when gaining QRP contacts and when the propagation comes in you'll be banging in countries that others probably already have so start catching up.

So long as you're having fun, that's what it's all about.

well not a lot to say apart from ........ Craig !!!!!! strong gale force winds, snow, lightning,thunder, heavy rain, no sun spots, no solar flares, electric black out, flat batterys, all forcast for Yorkshire are for next few months !!!!!!
having said that by your posts a bit of wet string on a 1980`s hand held you`d still get good contacts....
so impressed
John H catchng you up when he on the air, did hear you both the other day and Neil and alan....
loving this radio even more than i thought i would and this forum, all the help and the good crack, good luck everyone

Jimmy, really impressed with the contacts you've made so far. For 10m, just like 11, ignore solar and weather forecasts and just put some calls out. I'll bet you'll be surprised more than once with what's floating around out there even if the band appears dead at first. Often predictions say 'fair' or 'poor' but there's always paths open to somewhere on the band.

Take it you heard / saw me on FT4/8 and not SSB? If you heard me on SSB on 10m then I've missed a bit of inter-G. Do call me if you hear me, we both need an England QSO in the log for the challenge If you did hear me on SSB and it was a Russian one then I hope you didn't laugh at my pigeon Russian, I try, but I've learned most from Raisa videos and don't know much more...



For non-challenge 10m contacts, I had my first, or at least my first QRZ confirmed contact with Bolivia the other day CP6UA 10W, FT8.

peewee norfolk wrote:

well not a lot to say apart from ........ Craig !!!!!! strong gale force winds, snow, lightning,thunder, heavy rain, no sun spots, no solar flares, electric black out, flat batterys, all forcast for Yorkshire are for next few months !!!!!!
having said that by your posts a bit of wet string on a 1980`s hand held you`d still get good contacts....
so impressed
John H catchng you up when he on the air, did hear you both the other day and Neil and alan....
loving this radio even more than i thought i would and this forum, all the help and the good crack, good luck everyone

Well Jimmy your post certainly made me laugh , and most of the conditions are experienced here in the Yorkshire dales lol , am really lucky to have almost zero noise floor on 10m , along with being 500 ft asl with a great take off in most direction , having the tri band yagi certainly helps on the long DX  but am sure once the sporadic E season starts it will be a much more level playing field with regards to yagi V vertical , fear not I’ve a 5/8 wave vertical too lol 

Craig 2E0VRX

My first Mongolian contact ITL this lunchtime, JT1CO. 9W, FT8. Sadly not an SSB one for the 10m challenge, but as we both gave each other +dB RSTs there is hope an SSB QSO could happen some day.

SangueG wrote:

John H wrote:

I was pleased to finally get across the pond on 10 Metres SSB yesterday to K3MD, in Winfield, PA, yesterday afternoon with just the 2 watts from my Albrecht 2990 handheld and a T2LT vertical.
 
The distance between us was 3418 miles. 

Next challenge for the 2990 is to do the same but with just the telescopic whip attached, as the best distance I’ve managed so far is Italy.
G0DNV, Barnstaple.

So many joke posts and videos around the net yesterday being Apr 1st, I wondered if this was real... But I take it that it was, and so very well done! 2 watts into the US from UK is awesome!

Yes, genuine post Neal!!
I've been trying for ages with the 2990, obviously the contest helped as plenty of stations about to try for, but still chuffed to make the trip…

Well what can i say can i log uruguay for the challange he in my qrz was a very hard contact but still logged no real qso but he could hear me and me him so i suppose it counts well i hope so im chuffed as nuts think i pulled a muscle in my shoulder i punched the air that much..... long standing family joke........ "i suppose you chatted to uruguay tonight" well sort of did lol......

Nice one Jimmy, well done. Leader board updated.

Been out at a dog show again today so not a lot of radio time. For the main part when I did get on the radio 10m seemed dominated with a Brazil only contest. You did well to work another south American country in the midst of all that.

Dam hard work just kept trying and trying think they thought better answer him he not going away lol

No 191 overall all bands.

11:38utc TT8XX JK72 F/H FT8

What a weekend No 193 FT8
16:46UTC 3DA0AQ KG53

CW, 5w

OH0V - Aland Islands

A new one for me on 10m yesterday. Have a few OH0 stations ITL on other bands, but looks this is my first on 10m. Realising that makes a happy start to my day

FT8, 9W

FS/W6IZT - St Martin

New entity for me last night. I have read that he is there for the coming week and mostly using CW, though all spots I have seen so far have only been for FT8. If anyone works on SSB then please do let know, will want to try to work on that mode if I am available.

VK0DS in Antarctica on 10m FT8, this morning.  A new DXCC entity for me and certainly the first time into Antarctica.  Using Yaesu FT-450AT, 300W from Alpin 100 mkIII linear amplifier and 5/8th wave silver rod at 2.5m above ground.

Well done with the Antarctica contact there Ian.  

I've had signal reports but never completed a QSO cycle....yet.
(Always good to keep trying. )

Victor wrote:

Well done with the Antarctica contact there Ian.  

I've had signal reports but never completed a QSO cycle....yet.
(Always good to keep trying. )

I'm still trying for Hawaii, fingers crossed.

New one although I have worked Antartica on QO-100
He lost me but I kept sending R-12 until he heard me after a couple of QSOs.
13:54 VK0DS MC81 FT8

Confirmed on LOTW and QRZ.

Nice one you two making it with Antarctica. They had +dB dignals to me for quite some time on Saturday, but I didn't make it back. I have faith in my antennas, but in this instance I guess my little 10 watts were being swamped by the many callers.

Did have one new one for me on Monday on FT8, through maybe slightly controversial or dubious as not fully recognised, even though QRZ.com does recognise it as a separate entity..

1B/TA1HZ - Northern Cyprus

Awesome conditions on 10m all day today

Started off with east coast US stations coming in 59 and returning same to me. These were stations just chatting to each other not powerful DX stations. Surprisingly most were between 28300 - 28400.

Worked several POTA activations from the southern and eastern states.

Then this evening worked Canadian stations, some with very low power.

Deb

Great stuff there Deb and good to hear you enjoying some more 10m action.  

(Good conditions always seems to happen when I'm actually not at the radio! )

73,
Victor