November 1st 2015 was a dazzling time on the 10 metre band - I'm not quite sure what the atmospheric conditions were for the day. For hours on end I was able to work 10m JT65A DX stations:
- UN7SB Igor from Baikonur in Kazakhstan (where the space launch centre is based) was the first - a not inconsiderable distance of 2900 miles east of this QTH
- many relatively close European stations
- finally ending up in the Americas.
First contact with the continent came with Evan PU5SVE in Brazil - his QTH is 6150 miles away - finishing up with Cacho CX1DA in Uruguay again 6900 miles away.
At the time of writing 17:30 UTC November 1st 2015 the band was just closing for me. There were still a few South American stations giving -24db signals to me.
10 metres sure is a wonderful band and it's surprising what you can do with just 5 watts of RF feeding a piece of wire strung between a couple of trees!
Good DX everybody.
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