10m band

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A question to the hams on here, has anyone had any luck with the 10m band recently, there was a contest not too long ago on it, I couldn't hear much then and now its completely flat.

I wonder if it's my rig being a little bit deaf on that band.
I'm using a Yaesu FT-991A and EFHW long wire antenna mounted to the third storey roof.

All other bands are fine.
 
I work 10m regularly and it's been pretty active, especially in the afternoons. I had a 20 minute ragchew with a chap in New Jersey on 10m last week.

I'm running a DX10 through an end fed long wire, and I'm based just south of Warminster, Wilts.

G0WSJ
 
I've been hearing/reading a lot of reports of activity on 10m but not been checking it myself until Sunday; nothing heard then or today in the early afternoon. I do wonder if the muf is lower than 10m in the last few days?
de G8PMA
 
lindsay said:
I've been hearing/reading a lot of reports of activity on 10m but not been checking it myself until Sunday; nothing heard then or today in the early afternoon. I do wonder if the muf is lower than 10m in the last few days?
de G8PMA
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That was my thoughts too, it seems to be all or nothing, hopefully I'll have better results mobile with the firestick antenna.
73 M0YNW
 
Looking back through my log, I was active on 10 & 12m on the 6th & 7th of Nov. The new new rig and a quick shuffle around with the antenna have vastly reduced the noise on the lower bands, so I've been on 60 & 40m mostly over the last week or so.

I get almost zero noise on 10 & 12, but 80/60/40 were S8-S9 of noise, then I bought the DX10 and my noise floor dropped drastically. I then raised my wire up to around 8m (from 6m) and it dropped a bit more. Suddenly the lower bands are active again. I just can't compete with the hundreds of watts a lot of the other stations say their running :headbang:
 
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