10m is never open?

[KA9MOT]

http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php...38#post2821038

Really, Skippy? You might want to look into that. ;)

I see sarcasm in his post. That said, you've been burning up 10M! Good job!

[kb2vxa]

Why burn up ten meters? You think after burning up the first one he'd at least look for the short... SHEESH!

[WX7P]

Like this one




I SO wanted to reply "You mean like the Obama budget?" but knew it'd get deleted for being political.

Didn't you guys jump all over NY3V for posting random political shit in unrelated forums?

This crap is the same thing.

[kb2vxa]

That, and a long expired Novice call under the vanity system?

[KJ3N]

Here we go again...

http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php...eter-operation

What is it with some of these people? :headscratch:

My answer on page 2.

[AE1PT]

Or get a real one in the first place...

and get off the internet and in front of a rig...

[kb2vxa]

That's right, here we go again with another Islander who doesn't recognize a commercial fisher setting out long lines. Dija ever think one who starts a thread with an insanely dumb remark or question and is never seen again just >might< be a TROLL? Maybe? D'ya think?

.... am I looking in the wrong place?

Eh, maybe, because 10M is outside the BC-611s 3.5-6MHz operating range. (;->)

[KC2UGV]

Yeah, really trips me out when people say "Band X is never open!"

Sorry dude, you need to work on your antenna. Most every band is open somewhere, sometime.

I love PSK on 10M. It changes daily from local to global, and sometimes a few times day. My first completely home-built rig is going to be a 10M rig centered on the PSK freq.

[AE1PT]

A funny thing about 10M. Ops tune across the band and hear nothing but quiet and rubbish of one sort or another. No amateur activity. The band must be dead.

Other ops switch to the band, and throw their call out a couple times on that 'dead' band. Two hours later they have a couple QSO's under their belt--one of which is usually somewhere in South America.

So it must be that actually keying up and sending out RF energizes some atmospheric layer or another, and brings the band back to life. Sort of like using a defibrillator. QED...

Troll posts can often be fun--unless of course there are flames bursting out of the troll...

[N8YX]

There are local nets and repeaters to play around with on 10. Between those, Es and F-layer propagation, if you're not making contacts on the band something is seriously amiss with your radio apparatus.