Hi
In getting ready for the 10 meter RTTY contest this weekend, I was
looking back at last years log for when the band was open. For me in CO. I
made some contacts in the first hour 0000 to 0100 (5PM to 6PM MST) and then
nothing till 1400 utc. Noting how squirrelly the propagation is on 10, I
got wondering if maybe 10 was open "sporadically" throughout the night when
we were all just listening or sleeping with the radio on?
Here is my thought: 6 meters has 50.125 as sort of a freq. to call CQ to
see if the band is open. Would it be worthwhile to informally designate
frequency on 10 i.e. 28085 to monitor in the middle of the night or after
the band appears to be dead? If we all listened and/or called occasionally
on the same frequency maybe we would know if there was some sporadic E
going on?
Just a thought for the approximate 13 hours of down time. Or, I guess I
could enter the 160 ARRL contest.
Hope to see you all on 10 RTTY
W0LSD
Ken
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