Subj : Re: Severe Geomagnetic Storm
To : Randall Schad
From : Minex
Date : Thu Nov 07 2024 07:56 am
Re: Re: Severe Geomagnetic Storm
By: Randall Schad to Sean Dennis on Fri Oct 11 2024 12:31 pm
> SD> My dad, who is a General-class operator, says 10 meter has been really
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> SD> wide open for quite some time, which is unusual for 10 usually.
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> Can confirm. On 10 meters, I've made voice contacts with Hawaii and southern
> Argentina (roughly 5,000 mi each) over the past week, as well as a bunch to
> the West Coast (from Ohio) that sounded like they were next door. Tons of
> digital contacts to Japan and Oceania as well. The routine nature of that
> band opening is out of the ordinary in my limited experience, anyway.
This post is a few weeks old but I can still confirm that 10 meter is wide
open. I got on yesterday and managed to make contact from Colorado to Italy,
France, and Slovak Republic on CW using 100 watts. Its awesome!
The Dawn of Demise BBS (tdod.org)
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