Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
10 October 2006

A slowish week, but some notable DX about. Thursday was a good day along with the weekend brigade on Saturday and Sunday.

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Monday: EA6/DL1KBQ, CX1AV, IW0CZC, F5OUX, YY4MP, WP4U, SV8/DL8MCA, PY2SUN, LU9ESD, LU8EOT, CT2JCE, 9Z4F (Trinidad & Tobago but the call is missing a letter)

Tuesday: TK9Z (Spanish Dxpedition to Corsica) , LU7YS, IZ7FLP, EB5FYF, EA6/DL1KBQ, EA6/DH3KAT, DM3HZN, TU2/F5LDY (Jean-Luc, F5LDY will be in the Ivory Coast through to August 2007. He is authorized to operate as TU2/F5LDY and he plans to be active on10 metres CW and SSB) LZ1NG, LU1XAW, IZ0GKN, IW0HBY, FG5GP (Guadeloupe), DO1NEC (Germany, Low power 2m & 70cm??) DL1NUX, CX3DAC, CX1AV.

Wednesday: LU7YS, CX9DX, CX1AX, CE4SES, TI8II (Costa Rica), LU1XAW, PY2HL, CX2AL, UT5UBB, UT5RP, SP6IIU, PY3EW, PY2RDZ, PY1CW, LU6WBH, EB1IRJ, EA7GAK, EA7AOG, CX7AF.

Thursday: CX1AV, LU1XAW, C5DXC, CX1AX, SM2YSW, LW7EK, W8TWJ, PX2T, OZ6SSTV, LA2MJA, SM5INC, SM5DWF, D2DX, 7S2AT, YF1AR, W8PFD, W8EYM, W10J/R, TK9Z, SV3DCX, SM5ZBJ, SA5N, P43WLP, OZ8FU, N9MLJ, LU7YS, LU4DX, LI2MJA, KD4WOV/M, KB8LAG, K8RQZ, IZ8EPX, IZ4IRJ, F5OUX, EA7AYF, DL8MCA, CE4SES, 7S2E (Sweden).

Friday: 3XM6JR, LU7YS, TT8PK (Chad), EA7GAK, PY2SEI, PU1KGG, LU1DCH, FG5GP, CX1AX, CA5WQO, CA5UBR (Chile), BG8SBK (China).

Saturday: IQ8CZ, TI8II, VK4CQ, PY2CX, PY2DY, VP8LP, PY2XC, PJ4/PA3CNX, YV5YMA, N6O, LU8EOT, LU7YS, W3HEM, T80W (Republic of Palau), RN6DJ, PY5YA, PY3CX, ER1Q, EA4DNO, ZD7VC, W6TK, W6O, W6NL, VR2LH, VK4WR, UK8AAR, T88JW, RA0AA, PY6CX, PY2KGB, N4PN, LZ1ACR, LW9EOC, LW2DY, LW1DZ, LU5EK, JH0EQN, JG3MBL, JE1LET, JA1LNZ, IW0HBY, IK7LJZ, HB9AFI, F5OUX, EA4CRP, DS3HWS, CU3AD, 9W6SUE, 9W6RAY (Malasia), 9W2YCC, 9G5OO, 4Z5RU (Israel).

Sunday: TX6A, 9G5OO (Ghana), D44TD (Cape Verde), LU1XAW, TU2/F5LDY, ZS4JAN, TI8II, PY2CX, ZP8VAO (Paraguay), PT8KK, KG6DX, CE4SES, AH2J (USA), VK4WIL, N6O, CE3SBQ, WH0S (Mariana Is), W6YX, VP8LP (Falklands), VK4WR, VK4EMM, PY2XC, PY2DY, LU5AN, EA4BWD, AD6WL, 9W2QC, 9M2IDJ, YB0EIN Indonesia), VK6ANC, VK5BC, VK4UC, VK4FJ, VK2GWK, VK2CZ, VK1XP, UA6HV, TX4A (France), TA6A (Turkey), T88ST, SP6CJK, PY5YA, PY3EW, PY2ZA, PP5QY, PP5CG, LZ1CAR, LW8EOT, LW7DTU, LU8WF, LU7AVV, LU5FCV, LU1DCH, K6VO, K4EA, IZ8EYP/0, FH5/TX6A (Mayotte), DV1JM (Philippines), CX7BBR, CX4KM, CE5CJB, CA1UGE, 9G5OO.

Tim, M3SDE, sends some groans about Ofcom,
“Hi Tony, Great to read your 10m report once again.... Very disappointed this week... I waited patiently for October 1st to make my 1st ever QSO's on 10m. What a shambles from Ofcom, it was only after I had made many QSOs on 10m that day that I was told that Ofcom had put back the date for Foundation Licences until December 1st. This has not been published in many places and sadly Ofcom have made a complete *?*# up of the whole situation. So look forward to working 10m after December 1st now! 73”

A tough one Tim as you will now miss the big contest at the end of October. But do keep us informed of your contacts and any other interesting info.

Datta, VU2DSI, heard VR2LH, Carl in Hong Kong. It’s been a while since we’ve had anything from Hong Kong. Datta says he operates daily at 16:00 on 28.510, so anyone without VU on 10m listen up!!

3W9JR (Vietnam) could be active over the next 12 months.
5A7A, Libya, will be active from Nov 14th to 19th from just outside Tripoli. It’s a European DXpedition.
TM4Q (France) will be in use for the CW contest Nov 25th – 26th.
V31LL (Belise) should be active until 21st October.
XF4DL, (Soccoro Island, Revillagigedo Island) will be active from Oct 17th to November 3rd.

Contests: 14th – 15th Oceania DX CW.
Last weekend was the phone section and did bring out some of the VKs, I didn’t see many ZLs in the lists though. But being honest, there is nothing until the Worked All Germany contest on the 21st - 22nd or the CQ WW on the 28th – 29th.

I shall miss both!! I will be travelling to Seoul, South Korea to see my eldest daughter. If there are any radio amateurs in Seoul who read this bulletin who wouldn’t mind a visit from me, then let me know. Watch out for pics from Korea over the next few weeks.

Sun: Allegedly, (court mode) there is a sunspot on the face of the sun and its growing. However you’d be hard pushed to check it out. But there's more to solar activity than sunspots. "Even the quiet sun can knock your socks off with a beautiful prominence," says Tom Masterson of Washington State who took this picture on Oct. 9th.

That’s about it for this week, except that ‘4TUT gave me some of his home grown tomatoes and very tasty they are too. I’ve told him that some RF about would help them grow bigger but I still can’t get him put some amps into his gear. I keep trying.