[RTTY] 10 mtr dead band freq?

[Dave Hachadorian]

Monitor CB Channel 19 - 27.185 MHz.

If a signal shows up, rotate 10 meter antenna for S-meter peak to 
determine direction of opening.

It's an old 10 Meter Contest trick.

Thanks to AA7V for the idea.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, Arizona



-----Original Message----- 
From: Ken Eigsti
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:22 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] 10 mtr dead band freq?

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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