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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
21 February 2007

OK, I’m back from holidaying in Gran Canaria. Very nice weather 22 to 25°C every day. A tad breezy on occasions. No VHF or UHF activity where I was staying in Mas Palomas (which means “more pigeons”), but there is a NASA tracking station there!!

We only had a week so the wife was not intent on walking up there to see if we could get a trip round it. In fact she was a little more than disappointed and rather verbal when I mentioned it. Anyway, next time maybe.

On to the 10m band.

Most popular DX in order of popularity.

Monday: 9Q1D, J20MM, 9Z4GFB, G8GXP, T80W, CX3DAM, F4EBT, F8CFU, IZ5ICH, VK9ZLH, ZW150BP, EA7HAJ, I2SVA, IZ6CLN, PP5JD, PY2MTV, VK3GH, VK4CQ.

Tuesday: J20MM, V73ZZ, ZS6FHH, YW0DX, DL7CM, F6HTJ, IK0YVV, IV3RJT, OE1JWW, OH1JO, PA7ZZ, PU1CCC, S57S, UA3QDX, UU2JQ.

Wednesday: M0PRO, IW0HBY, CX4KM, D60VB, J20MM, VK4CQ, ZW150BP, ZW1SBM, EC1AGZ, G8GXP, IZ7BFR, M3OPG, OH1JO, PU1KGG, W6VA.

Thursday: K4KV, W0YZZ, V73ZZ, K3SWZ, DO9BM.

Friday: SV8CS, SV3DCX, VK9DNX, 5N2/SQ8JCA, KC0CF, VK2KCD, F6EGV, IV3JCC, IW1DQS, ZL2USB.

Saturday: DO2OCB, 6W1HM, AO7, D60VB, DL0KQ5KS, F3ZD, F6ITD, JW5QFA, K1LQH, K8UO/NET, N3ELK, VK2FVG, VK4KR, W4GDC, DO9BM, JG2TKH.

Sunday: T88RA, PY5HOT, TT8FC, VK9DNX, CX3DAM, VP8LP, JA5XAE, JE1LET, JG2TKH, JQ1NTP, JR7CJS, PY2SF, PY2SHF.

It looks like a really cr*p week. Even the weekend looks sad. Well not so at the weekend!! A total of 693 contacts were noted of which only 50 were phone. There was of course a CW contest and I’m not into CW so I’ve not shown that DX. There does not seem to have been much spin off into the phone sections from the contest.
The two contact maps for the weekend are as follows. What a difference.

The CW map

The Phone map

Contests: The French are holding a contest, REF, from 06:00 24th to 18:00 25th February. And then there is the OMIS (Something Something International Sideband Society) contest from 15:00 24th to 15:00 25th BUT only on 28.665 ±25kHz, so there!

Sun: Two diddy spots. Not worth a mention really, so I won’t.

Whilst I was in the Canary Islands I did manage to get this partial pic of a massive halo round the sun.

Taken with my Samsung D900 phone, I used a book by Robert Rankin, “The Brightonomicon”, to mostly blot out the sun. Good book. No I lied. Now I look at it again, it’s a copy of El Pais, a Spanish newspaper. And that’s good too.