Good Morning WWDX members,well looking online at conditions and they don't seem to promising today, however as we all know that can change in instant, haven't been on the air too much this past week due to work,etc....however I'm planning on trying to be on the air this afternoon around 2pm on 37 LSB, don't forget to set your Clocks back 1 hour behind, have a great Sunday!!
It's not that no one is on there, but rather that the DX stations don't operate 10 meters when the SFI is down. They're ham operators so they get privileges on 160, 80, 75, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, and 6 meters. Granted, some of those band are not very good for DX but 20 meters is almost always open and DX stations on ham radio want to make as many contacts as possible and an unreliable band is worthless for that. 11 meter stations are operating unlicensed and go with the conditions at that time. I may be able to get into those countries but how would I know if there is no one in those countries on 10 meters? 2 weeks ago we were able to get into Italy, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bonaire, and Canada, all on just the speaker-wire dipole. SFI was peaking 185-190, so they were very active. That's all I was trying to say.
It's been good the last few days, 29.600 has been active on simplex and plenty of stations from 28.3-28.5
