There was an opening to Europe on 10m Sunday, fairly weak and intermittent,
only worked one EA station here. I heard Z3, I, CT also but couldn't get
them to listen stateside. Also heard a couple 6w's running Europe but
couldn't get their attention either over the European pileup even when they
were s9 for a while.
David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Grant [mailto:dougk1dg@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 23:05
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] What Happened on 10 Meters?
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 Jimk8mr@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Looking at the CQWW SSB 10 meter totals on 3830, I see huge differences
> > between numbers posted in Europe and those from the USA. For example
> DF0HQ
> > had 676/26/109, vs. 209/14/44 at K3LR.
> >
> > Was there some sort of very short opening that peaked in the hours the
> EU
> > could have worked people, but petered out before the Western Hemisphere
> > could take advantage? Multiple hop Es in useful directions? Something
> else I'm
> > missing?
> >
> > Inquiring minds want to know.
>
> On Sunday of WWSSB, I kept asking loud Europeans who called me on 15
> if we could try 10M. Quite a few said 10M was "wide open", but on
> closer inspection it was open inside Europe (and to Africa, Middle
> East, etc.). No propagation to the U.S, other than a few W4s. One loud
> European tried to move me to 10, since he was hearing lots of signals
> and figured that the band would be open.
>
> I did not work or hear a single European on 10M. And I did not hear
> any Ws beyond ground-wave (I did not work or hear Zone 3 or 4, for
> example), even while listening to the South Americans running Ws -
> their callers were inaudible.
>
> It was a very different contest in Europe than it was in North America.
>
> I am hoping this will change in a few years...or maybe a few weeks!
>
> 73,
>
> Doug K1DG
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