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  • 12/10/2007 | KF9US

    This was, without a doubt, the toughest 10 Meter Contest in which I have ever participated. From beginning to end, the dead periods far outlasted the openings, here in north central Wisconsin.

    Friday evening (local time) offered an opening from Texas ... Read More

  • 12/10/2007 | AD5FD

    dismal...just dismal. as others already noted, there was a decent es opening friday night...so good there was even short skip down to 500 miles or so. i had the pleasure of talking to hams in corpus christi, shiner and converse, tx(my hometown area) ... Read More

  • 12/10/2007 | N8QE

    Band conditions were terrible in Northeast Ohio. I worked a few local Ohio stations, caught one small E's opening Saturday evening to the southwest states from Texas to Mississippi for about 90 minutes, and heard not a DX station anytime. Totalled only... Read More

  • 12/10/2007 | K5BZH

    My fear was that ten would be dead throughout the contest window. When the contest started, signals started surfacing, the activity lasted for over 3 hours! What made this even nicer was having to tolerate some QRM during the first hours of the conte... Read More

  • 12/10/2007 | KA0P

    Texas, Florida and 2 stations in my own section, Mo. Those are the only 3 sections I heard. It was like a pipeline to TX and FL from here, 30 watts from my Ft-757 and vertical were all I needed when the band was open. Band was dead during the day, mos... Read More

  • 12/10/2007 | WB2AMU

    I suspected that it would be very rough band conditions for the Ten Meter Contest this year based on previous listening and looking at the low sunspot numbers. I was hoping that there would be at least some Sporadic-E activity sometime during the cont... Read More

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    12/10/2007 | IO5O

    That to say we can talking about weather ? Yes, if that one had been good, at least we would have had the chance to get nice weekend in our beautiful countryside... but, perhaps it was to ask too much, however we are in December and , we cannot expect ... Read More

  • 12/09/2007 | LU1CGB

    After a long year of heavy work in the station, this year I heard many station on 144 and JT65 has provide us of many hours of enjoyable operation.
    On October weekend, my station setup was IC-275H with home made preamp in the shack, a 4CX1500B amplifie... Read More

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