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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
01 March 2007

Back to the usual, weekdays low activity and weekend quite good, comparatively speaking. VK9DNX (Norfolk Is Dxpedition) made a good show of things as did 5N2/SQ8JCA (Nigeria). Quite a few VKs about and the French done good too, including the TMs!!

I had a note from Bert, PA3GIO/6W, clarifying the comments I made about people reporting his callsign. He says, “I use what is stated on the 6W license.”

This is obviously the most sensible thing to do when operating in a foreign country. People who work Bert or other stations with special prefixes or suffixes should record them in the manner that the operator says the call.

I also had a report from Carl, VR2LH, in Hong Kong.
He worked VK4CQ/M 5/6, VK2YDD 5/8, ZS1Y 5/7 and heard JA & HL. His comments were:
“10m was open to JA & HL 'as usual'. Not as many VK stations worked as last weekend but I managed to again work VK4CQ/M (Ross) & VK2YDD (Dom). I was surprised to work Volker (ZS1Y), the last 10m contact we had was nearly a year ago. Asian based AM/FM/CB operators continued to be all over 10m with these signals still strong in Hong Kong two hours after sunset -shame no amateur signals were audible!”

We don’t seem to get much activity on CB here any longer as far as I’m aware. They now have higher frequencies available but I’ve not heard anything of it for a long time. I’m sure someone will tell me if I’m wrong!

Now is a good time to give the 28 MHz Only Group a plug. They exist as a Yahoo group and can easily found by going to Yahoo.com and searching on 28_mhz (yes, it is an underscore). Dom VK2YDD is the controller.

Most popular DX, as usual most popular first.

Monday: VK9DNX, VK2BZU, JA3JOT, JA1HGY, HL4XM, HL2AEJ, BA6QH, 6K5AQY, VK2YDD.

Tuesday: CN8SG, TR8CA, CA5WQO, ZW150BP, PP5CG, CX3DAM, CX4KM, LW2DY, PY5PDC, VK9DNX, EC8ADS, LU3JVO, LU4DX, PU1KGG, PY2ADR, PY2BRZ, PY2CX, PY2RDS, YV1RDX, YV5JF.

Wednesday: 5N2/SQ8JCA, VK9DNX, SQ8JCA, VK6HD.

Thursday: 5N2/SQ8JCA, IU0ANT, VK7KK, VK2ARO, IZ7BFR, IZ5CML, YV1RDX.

Friday: KD4WOV, F6HTJ, SQ8JCA, K1RX, JF1TEU, I2UUA, ZL1BYZ.

Saturday: VK9DNX, PY5YA, ZS6BQI, LU1DPM, LW2DY, PY2BN, F5IN, F5KDQ, TM7Z, VR2LH, YV2FEQ, BG7NWF, DL2YOU, F6BLQ, F8AKS, HI3/IK4QJF, HJ4OBA, PY3PDR, SW1LER (SW is a Greek prefix but some how I don’t think this is legit), TM6I, WH0RU (WH0 is Mariana Is but again I have doubts), YV4FEQ, YP3A, 6K5AQY, F4BHW, F5CQ, F5MOO, F6AOJ, IW0HBY, JF1TEU, K7INA, KE5CCN, KE5FXE, KP4CAT, KX5RW, N4NN, N5BO/4, PY1SX, VK2YDD, W4RVZ, W8RAN, YV1RDX, ZL1TM, ZS1Y.

Sunday: VK9DNX, F6PTT, KF6JOQ, TM0ANT, TM7Z, F4FIP, F6KDL, F6KHM, F6KVP, F8KCF, 9Q1D, F5HRY/P, F5KMB, F6BNH, F6KAR, F6KJX, F6REF, IR7ANT, KB6WR, KC6WBN, LW2DY, F5LMK, F5UTN, F6AOJ, F6GOX, F8CFU, JA3AZD, JG2TKH, JH7RTQ, JI2TKX, KG6ZBL, W8RAN.

Contests: The big one this weekend (no I’m not bragging) is of course the ARRL Contest. 00:00 Saturday to 24:00 Sunday. I’m really looking forward to this as it’s ages since I worked any DX (or even heard any).

Sun: Sunspot 944 is insignificant. But this weekend we will have an eclipse of the moon. This Saturday's eclipse will visible from parts of all seven continents: Europe and Africa are favoured. Here in th UK we should see Earth's red shadow swallow the Moon for more than an hour around 23:21 GMT. That is if we have no cloud!