How has everyone's luck been now that the sun's starting to work in our
favor? Back in October when 15m opened up for the best part of a week I
was able to make some good DX, and I've been having good luck on both
20 & 40.

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Hi,

How has everyone's luck been now that the sun's starting to work in our favor? Back in October when 15m opened up for the best part of a week I
was able to make some good DX, and I've been having good luck on both
20 & 40.

I ran WSPR for a while yesterday on 40/20/10 and got some pretty awesome results, I think 9700 miles was the furthest from here in Arizona.

12/15 have been pretty good the last few times I checked. FT8/FT4 is mainly what I've been checking with, although I'm more partial to PSK and the like.

Thanks,
Dean.

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I feel I should mention that I am coming from the perspective of
running mainly CW - I thought for sure I had mentioned that! :P

In any case, CW has been doing well and my occasional drifts over to
SSB/AM voice have done well on the upper HF bands as well, mainly
15/10.

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On 12/02/20, Nkeck72 said the following...

How has everyone's luck been now that the sun's starting to work in our favor? Back in October when 15m opened up for the best part of a week I was able to make some good DX, and I've been having good luck on both
20 & 40.

I've been doing a lot of FT8 with 10m lately. I usually work 20m/40m on FT8.
I don't remember 10m being that great but have had great luck lately in the morning hours.

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"Chaise" <chaise@21:1/108> writes:

I don't remember 10m being that great but have had great luck lately in the morning hours.

I wonder if that means Techs will be able to get some SSB HF action now
with that little slice of 10m phone they have allocated to them?

I was a tech till this past February, and while I do like CW, it was
definitely frustrating that the only HF phone I was allowed to work was completely dead.
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Hi,

I feel I should mention that I am coming from the perspective of
running mainly CW - I thought for sure I had mentioned that! :P

No problem, I have actually taken the first step and will be getting some CW learning materials shortly. I went with the Gordon West CDs (0-5 WPM) initially and we'll see how it goes.

Looking forward to getting involved with CW finally.

Thanks,
Dean.

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