Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
09 November 2006

Not such a hectic week or even weekend, but that’s not surprising as there was no CQWW to contend with.

Nice to see some VKs and ZSs in the lists again, even the odd G and GW. XF4DL on Socorro Island, Mexico was really running well, but had to stop on 3rd November. 9J2VB ran away with the prizes on Saturday and Sunday. There were some other gems in there as well but sadly little into my QTH!

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Monday:
XF4DL, F6EXV, YB0DPO, UW2I, ON4AXU, M0REX, LU1HF, KG4VTO, IZ1DNR, IW0HBY, IW0BYL/8, IK8OZZ, IK1BPO, GW3TMP, 9Z4GU.

Tuesday:
V51AS, IT9YLF, EA3EVL, XXF4DL, ON4LAN, LU8EOT, IT9LKJ, EC8AAZ, DO8LA, DL1NUX.
Wednesday: DO1FHQ, XF4DL, VK9RR, RZ3ACM, LU1XAW, DL5IAH, DL0RT.

Thursday:
XF4DL, PY2DN, YY4MP, TO8RR, CX5TR, SA2Z, PY5YA, PY2WDX, PY2RDZ, VK9RR, UT1FG/MM, SM2YSW, RZ3ACM, PY2UN, PY2JDS, PY2BOZ, PR7HM, LW2DY, IZ0GRR, FS5HL, C5DXC, 7S2E.

Friday:
VK9ZLH, VK2XN, VK4CQ, V73SC, V63VE, EA7GAK, EA3EVL, DJ5AV, ZL9ZLH, YY4ZD, YY4MP, VK5FDMR, UR4MIB, PY5YA, PY2DXX, PY2AA, LU7DKK, LU6DU, LU1AN, JJ1RDX, IZ4IZC, IZ0CXY, G1XYM, G0OUF/P, G0FWX, F4TTR, EC8AWP, DL3GD, CE5CJB, 9W6SUE.

Saturday:
9J2VB, ST2M, C5DXC, VU2DSI, PY2KGB, CE3PG, RK3DXZ, PY2XC, VK9CGG, UA3AUH, RA3QPY, PY5HOT, PY2SEI, PP5CG, LW9EOC, LU7YZ, EA7GAK, A70RRY, 3XD2Z, ZS6XT, ZS1KC, ZD9BV, Z21GX, G1SSL, CX9BP, BD3APX, 9Q1D, 4Z5JO.

Sunday:
9J2VB, PZ5RA, ZS4JAN, ZD7FT, VU2DSI, VP8NO, ZS6OB, PY5YA, BD7KLO, YV5YMA, VR2XMQ, PY2XC, PY2DU, KH6KW, CA5WQO, ZS1WDK, ZS1JD, YV5JF, W5PR, V51KC, SV1JGX, LU5FF, AD6WL, VK9ZLH, VK9CGG, TT8FC, TR8CA, FK8CP, DT8A, 9K2MU.

Contests:
This coming weekend we have the Japan International DX Contest, strangely from 07:00 Saturday to 13:00 Sunday, why?

There is nothing else on phone, well to be truthful there is the SL (Swedish) contest which runs, wait for it, from Saturday 11:00 to Saturday 12:00, stunning!!

And the SSA (Swedish again but different than the SL one) which runs from Sunday 15:15 to Sunday 16:15, again why?

Sun:
The sun is pretty quiet today. The interesting thing is the transit of Mercury across it’s face.

The perfectly circular silhouette of Mercury appears at bottom, the ragged expanse of sunspot 923 at the top.

Happy DXing