Monday, October 28, 2013

10 Meters Comes to Life

Pretty lively this morning (Pacific time).  We are definitely in solar peak conditions, though not as dramatically so as in some past cycles.

Some unid likely outband stations were speaking Spanish, way up in 10 (29446.5) where they're not usually heard.  They were in LSB, while amateur transceivers typically use USB on this band.

Also a brief voice opening to Europe.  This path is still going on a weak-signal mode called JT65, though the band appears to be doing its daily shift to South America and later most likely to the Pacific.

Here are some JT65 hits in Southern California. The columns are UTC time, sync quality, strength in dB (I forgot the zero reference), offset in start time from 00 seconds (on your local clock), offset in Hz from 28076.000 kHz, and message exchanged. The countries in () were added by myself for identification.

16:17  3 -22  0.7   608  K CQ EI5HV IO51 (Ireland)
16:21  2 -22  0.8   608  K N1QQR EI5HV -05
16:34  4 -24 -1.9  -318  K SV2DFK EA3ZD 73 (Spain)
16:38  3 -22 -0.2   657  K EI5HV 9Y4NW FK90 (Trinidad & Tobago)
16:48  3 -19 -1.1   689  B NU6O EA3ZD JN01
16:52  3 -18 -0.6   350  K PD0TVA RRR 73 (Netherlands)
17:06  8 -18 -0.1   102  B CX8AF EI9KG R-19 (Ireland)
17:08  3 -22 -1.1  -517  K N8DEA IZ5UFW JN53 (Italy)
17:13  4 -21 -0.4   657  K CQ CX1BP GF15 (Uruguay)
17:16  6 -17 -0.3  -848  B CQ CE6MBK FF30 (Chile)
17:38  3 -19 -0.3   221  K ON7BL CX1BP 73
17:44  2 -25 -0.2   969  K WA6JBZ CE6MBK 73