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Lol am sure there will be plenty of Es to come Neal
Been a fairy dire couple of weeks on 10m , finished work a bit early so thought I would fire up the rig , very little on the scope but there was activity on 11 , called CQ on 10 and straight away two Italian stations in the log , both were 5/9 and they were only on verticals , moral of the story , always worth calling out even if the band appears dead
Fingers crossed the E season kicks in proper sooner rather than later
Craig
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat May 20, 2023 6:45 pm
20.05
Been away a couple of days. Just turned the radio on after getting in and there's some E skip currently on 10 & 11 from Scandinavia down through France and Spain. Just caught one into France.
F4FPG/P - France 1pt (32pts)
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat May 20, 2023 8:12 pm
20/5 / 2023
F4FPG/P - France 1pt (63) HA7TM - Hungary 1pt (64)
24/5/2023
LZ3ND - Bulgaria 1pt (65)
Craig
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Call Sign : 26-CT-3352 G0DNV, 26SW214, Jolly Roger820 Posts : 322 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
Call Sign : 26-CT-3352 G0DNV, 26SW214, Jolly Roger820 Posts : 322 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
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat May 27, 2023 5:57 am
Golly, looks I missed out on a good opening yesterday
John H Major contributor
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat May 27, 2023 9:07 am
SangueG wrote:
Golly, looks I missed out on a good opening yesterday
Down here in Barnstaple it started about 16:00 & finished about 21:00z. Signals were reasonable apart from the Polish station that was extremely weak. I could hear most of Central Europe and Spain, but nothing from UK, Benelux, the Balkans , Portugal, or North Africa
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat May 27, 2023 9:40 am
Had the usual work yesterday John, and then was out in the evening for a family birthday meal, so missed all that. Well done for getting those. Hopefully it will be good again later today, but of course because I am not too busy today then it won't be lol.
Just managed one into Italy, so at least have 1 point for the weekend. He struggled a bit with understanding my questions, but he was using over 50x more Watts than I was though.
27.05 IZ1WYO - Italy 1pt (33pts)
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat May 27, 2023 12:12 pm
27/5/23 9A4CD, Croatia 1 point (37)
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat May 27, 2023 3:05 pm
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Mon May 29, 2023 7:24 am
Kaosss wrote:
28.5
5Z4/UA4WHX Kenya 55
Very well done on this contact Al. I haven't heard Kenya on the band on SSB at all this season. Using FT8 another station there showed via PSK Reporter they received my signal a couple of times, but they never returned my call. That's the closest I have got.
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TF/PD9DX - Iceland 1pt (69) OH6RM - Finland 1pt (70)
Craig
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:03 am
Sydthecat wrote:
1/6/2023
TF/PD9DX - Iceland 1pt (69) OH6RM - Finland 1pt (70)
Craig
Nice going Craig. I saw Iceland and Scandinavia were around yesterday on QRZCQ. Sadly there was absolutely nothing from that direction down here in Devon
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat Jun 03, 2023 7:14 pm
3/6/23 ZB2JK, Gibraltar 1 point (39)
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sat Jun 03, 2023 7:39 pm
Hey nice one John and thanks for the heads up via FB
ZB2JK - Gibraltar 1pt (71) great to chat with John who is originally from this area ( Leeds)
Craig
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sun Jun 04, 2023 6:56 am
Nice one guys. I was listening here, but it looks like my QTH was the only place in the UK his signal wasn't landing well. I couldn't here them well enough to attempt calling.
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:03 am
SangueG wrote:
Nice one guys. I was listening here, but it looks like my QTH was the only place in the UK his signal wasn't landing well. I couldn't hear them well enough to attempt calling.
Here wasn’t very strong here Neal, only 5/3, he told me he was only using 15 watts into a Moxon. He also said he was actually a long way up towards the summit working portable.
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:49 am
More a 3-4/3 here. I was only picking out half the words spoken. I heard a couple of stations near me work him like he was next door to them, but it wasn't to be for me.
I just worked a station, so happy to get a point in for this weekend.
04.06 IS0DCR - Sardinia 1pt (37pts)
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sun Jun 04, 2023 12:00 pm
SangueG wrote:
More a 3-4/3 here. I was only picking out half the words spoken. I heard a couple of stations near me work him like he was next door to them, but it wasn't to be for me.
I just worked a station, so happy to get a point in for this weekend.
04.06 IS0DCR - Sardinia 1pt (37pts)
You’re hearing G stations locally?
I haven’t heard a local G here in North Devon on 10 Metres since January!
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Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 Sun Jun 04, 2023 1:01 pm
Yes, there's more activity on 10 than 11 here. Being only just over 10 miles north of Swindon there are active club members there. Most seem to hear and get out fairly well, I guess because they are higher than me. A couple of strong ones to mention though to listen out for are M0KYB (contest call M1T) and G5MCL who uses a 2 element delta loop on 10m (I'd love one of those).
It's good to hear activity on 10m. But being so close to them is not so fun at other times on other bands. My receivers can get completely overloaded on 2m contest nights when their beams are pointing my way.
Today at 10:01 am by teapot
Subject: Re: 10m DXCC Summer Challenge contacts 2023 
