Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
18 June 2006

Its been a busy two weeks for me but now things should settle back to normal. The school time table is finished so I have more time to play radios.

Monday:
Lots of Europe to South America contacts with I suppose, the World Cup fuelling activity. VI9NI were always going to get their share of the action. Nice call of the day, TO0O from Martinique.

Tuesday:
A lot of European activity but the real DX was once again, VI9NI on Norfolk Island.

Wednesday:
Again Europe open to Russia, Japan and S America YS1SPY (fancy being a spy in El Salvador), NP3FY and HJ4OBA (Colombia) being notable.

Thursday:
Plenty of Europeans in to S America and some N American short skip. VI9NI and HV0A (Vatician City) being very popular DX along with RK6YYA/0

Friday:
Far more diverse spread with stations from N & S America, Europe, Russia and S Africa getting in on the act. TP20CE was 3rd most popular DX after the usual culprits .

I’ll include this weekends stuff in the next report.

Contests:
Next weekend could be interesting , The King of Spain Contest 12:00 Saturday to 12:00 Sunday and ARRL Field Day Saturday 18:00 to Sunday 21:00 plus QRP Milliwatt Field Day.

Sun:
Just one sunspot, 896. Growing but not a problem yet. On July 3rd, asteroid 2004 XP14 will fly past Earth barely farther away than the Moon. The 600-meter space rock, glowing like a 12th magnitude star, will slide through the Milky Way in only 4 hours. More later.

The International Space Station (ISS) is doing something unusual: For the next few days it'll be orbiting Earth in almost-constant sunlight. This happens every year around the time of the summer solstice, and it results in many good sighting opportunities.

This gif from John Locker in Wirral, UK

Short but sweet this week.