I could enjoy the good contest.
Tnx for a fine contest again.
IC-7600(100W), Dipole-ANT.

I enjoyed the contest.

At the beginning of contest, main yagi had high SWR so switched
to another antenna as band was fading and listened to many FL
station, but could not make QSO.  On Saturday found antenna
switch box located at base of tower had faulty port, so switched
ports and main yagi worked again.  Also, same band situation on
Sunday morning when band was trying to open to NE USA could hear
stations, but not make QSOs.  Very difficult to listen to many
stations when band not completely open and not be able to make
QSO due to QRP 5W category.  Rode many peaks and followed skewed
paths to make QSOs.  Much QSB on Sunday.  Called everybody I
heard many times without any luck.  Propagation ping-ponged from
the NE to SE USA all day Sunday.  Thanks all QSOs and for digging
my weak signal out.

I checked the solar disk on thursday and noted that we had a sunpotthat was over half way across the
sun so I knew that conditions might start ok , but would probably deteriorate by Sunday. Given that
, I figured we had a contest that would be decided in the first 30 hrs or sooner so I treated every
opening as if it were the last .Only managed to west after lunch on Saturday missed all of western
Canada except AB

Came on late and worked QRP for local contacts

I couldn't devote much time to this contest, but was glad to catch propagation to Mexico and South
America.  Sunday was slow-going.  Best Holiay sishes to everyone.  73, Dale Clement, AF1T

Only had a brief opportunity to operate in this one.  Hamstick on
the truck out front, with 100-ft cable to inside.  Assisted by
spotting network, yes, but couldn't hear anybody on the bandmap,
so no, not really.

First got on the radio at 1900z on Saturday and had a good two hours of
decent conditions.  After those two hours, the band closed and pretty
much stayed closed.  Temporary inverted-vee dipole with apex at 23 feet.
KX3 and KXPA100 at 90W.  PX3 used to check periodically for activity,
but little found after 2100z on Saturday other than the same handful of
Californians I'd already worked.  Could see a lot of faint CW traces on
the waterfall, but too weak to hear, much less copy, so I didn't feel
comfortable being an alligator by running. Thanks for the QSOs and a
few new states for 10M WAS.

RST sent was Mixed and 59/599

chilean pacific dx group

Just getting a first touch with this contest

During the 3h I have been at the station I spotted about 20 stations
across Europe,  mostly with audible scatter effects. The only stable
signal I could hear was OY1CT. Running the K3@5Watts on a MiniBeam.

-

QRP 5 Watt from FT817 via Z11 AutoTuner to 2 Element-Mini-Yagi
MFB23, 11m high
Bad condx for QRP. I heard and called several stations but without
success (EE5T, RL3A, UA2FZ etc.)

Band condition was not that good.. It comes for while then
suddenly drop.. but I survived...

KENWOOD TS-830S DIPOLE WINDOM 70 WATT

Antena V-2000 Diamond 6m. 2m. y 70cm.
Celwave de 6m a 40m. Vertical.

Used FT897d 5w + TM535 tuner + LW 40m

TS430S 60W ANT GP

VY 73

My best score ...

Transceiver - ICOM IC-751AF 80W
Antenna - 2 el HB9CV 5m up

First try at ARRL 10m found very poor propagation

Very poor conditions.

Very poor conditions - normally this is a great contest. 73  Chris

Band open to Europe from 08.33 to 09.48 Saturday and
worked one 'G' station on Sunday. Poor old 10M!

Only one brief opening!

The propagation was not on the top this time. All possibilities given
were used up to complete a QSO. Many thanks for QSOs and hope to
see you next time. Rig TS-530SP 100W ant end-fed 21 mtrs long wire
above flat roof.

ICOM-746, Wire dipol. Very bad propagation!

No condition at all. HNY

Propagation really bad, during this contest I listened to only 5
stations, but I was lucky to have stuck 2 old friends of radio, so my 2
QSO, thanks Franco

hello everyone, shame ... little propagation and free time. 73,s de iz5imd fred

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you for contacts.
10m band was so quiet.

Put your comments here.
Use multiple lines if needed.

I enjoyed very much. Hope to see you all next year.

RIG:IC-720A 25W   ANT:Vertical

Condition were not good.

I enjoyed the contest.

Enjoy!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Using IC7300S with 5W output and 8.5m folded long wire antenna.

I enjoyed the 10m contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Arigatoh!

Tnx the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

3.1. Single Operator (use of spotting networks is NOT PERMITTED):
3.1.1.3. CW only
3.1.1.3. CW only

I enjoyed the contest.

Tanks for the QSO in the Contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

OATH :I swer using QRP5W out.
RIG: IC-7300M Power down. ANT 4el CQ (21/28MHz)

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Very poor condition during contest.But I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed CQ ARRL  10m Contest !
Thank you for all .
Thank you for all .

I enjoyed the contest.

I used power less than 5W.

Very bad condition!

IC-7300M (50 Watts)
Loaded DP

I enjoyed the contest.

Great weather but few DX stations were received in Japan.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

50W
Portable:Uratakao-cho, Hachioji city, Tokyo

I enjoyed the contest by QRP.

I did not hear US stations.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

QSOs  Pts/QSO  Pts  Mults
CW     70        4  280     31  8 DX, 19 K, 1 VE, 3 XE
SSB    20        2   40     13  4 DX, 9 K, 0 VE, 0 XE

90           320  x  44  =  14080

SkookumLogger K3S KPA1500 OB40-2 2XA-3B-12L wires

Operating from Maine with a log periodic antenna fixed due north left a lot of
RF going in the wrong direction, but it was still fun to be on 10 meters!

There was no need to run a dupe sheet this year with the poor propagation
conditions.  My best DX was working 3 stations in Florida in a Sunday afternoon
opening.

I gave up Friday night and watched curling instead. Way more
exciting. Saturday had some nice openings to the midwest and then
the southwest. Definitely better conditions than last year.

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Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Too much to do this year with chores. But I did the best I could off peak hours. Always have fun
operating every year. Thanks for putting on the contest. Kenwood TS-590SG; w/ 80 watts of low
power... 73 de K1VWQ

Difficult conditions but a few flashes of DX in the log.

More activity then expected with low solar numbers.

K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care
retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. N3UM and
W3GB did Multi-Op Single Tx in the 2018 ARRL 10m. test. We found
it fun and effective to do CW for ~1/2 hr. or so (usually N3UM)
and then SSB for ~1/2 hr. (usually W3GB). This gave each of us
and both modes a shot at brief and unpredictable E skip. At
start our 31 Qs 00-01Z, CW and then SSB, were all LOS; MD, DC,
VA, WV, or PA. Then, sporadic E. On CW 0107-0125Z we worked NS,
MN, ME, AL, QC, NB, and FL. Next, on SSB 0136-0200Z we got FL,
AL, ME,, LA, and TX. Back on CW, we got GTO, TX, MS, and NC
0204-0220Z. At 03Z QRT we had 70 Qs and 27 St/Pv mults. The
sudden strong brief �??spotlight�?� E skip came again Sat. AM 16-20Z
with 121 more Qs and 30 more mults, including 5 XE states. After
that Es came only briefly, 14-16Z Sun., with 32 Qs and 5 mults.
We got our first F-layer Qs Sat. 1750-19Z; 6 LUs and a ZL(!) on
CW. Then 2004-2020Z we worked hard for TI and OA on SSB, and HK
and YV on CW. Of our 11 cty. mults 9 were in SA, and all but LU
had weak sigs. We were glad to get 254 Qs and 70 mults in 13.2
fun hrs. this year vs 177 Qs and 36 mults in 8.5 slow hrs in 2017.

"Florida to the rescue!"

Operated from FM29iv

Total Contacts: 43
Unique States / Provinces: 27

40 CW QSOs x 4 CW Multiplier = 160 CW QSO Points
3 PH QSOs x 2 PH Multiplier = 6 PH QSO Points
160 CW QSO Points + 6 PH QSO Points = 166 Total QSO Points

166 Total QSO Points x 27 Unique States / Provinces / DXCC = 4482 Total Points

Thank you for the ARRL 10 meter Contest.

A little better than last year byt not by much.  Worked only nine on Sunday.

Brutal! I was told stations were calling me that I did not hear. There is only so much one can do
with a dipole and 100 watts without sunspots. It was a long 16.5 hours of BIC for only 63 Qs.
however, 73 es see you next year! Dave

Eric_Rust@baylor.edu

Even tho conditions were weak still a fun event

Slow going, but much better than last year.

There were times when the CW band was full of
signals and I could not find any activity on SSB!

Yuck!

Had to leave town Saturday so decided to do casual QRP effort to
hand out a few Qs. Band opened just as I had to leave for airport.

Fabulous opening on Saturday morning to the east coast, made most of
my contacts during a two hour run.  Fun to watch the opening shift west;
first had lots of far east coast QSOs, then some weak ones from
Ohio, then strong ones from Ohio, and further west. Worked DJ7MH
during the pileup, hope it was really him, haven't
heard EU on 10 for quite some time.  Had a short opening to the
Northwest Sunday as well.

I was running 500W to a 5 element yagi at 48'.

Dana, K6NR

missed most of the big opening Sat.  Sunday was dismal.  Fun though - signals on !0!

every Q was a challenge.  eventually the sunspots will return...

Much better than last year for contacts

With apologies to Charles Dickens, "It was the best of times, it
was the worst of times ...."   Saturday morning local time
started well with some terrific E-skip to the southeastern US and
some South American contacts.  I experienced some very localized
skip conditions with very strong signals.  The conditions were
very similar to what we might expect with a 6 meter opening.
Unfortunately, it seemed overall activity levels were down, at
least in our area.  It seems my QSO count was the lowest in
years.  Too bad for those who missed out.  The E-skip was
thrilling and visiting with the locals who showed up was fun.
Please let there be increased solar flux!  Thanks to all who
answered my calls.  73,  Jerry

Band conditions poor and snow storm on Sunday.  We need more SSN!

got on for a while.  Enjoyed the openings.

Condx not good this year. Rig Icom 703+/Wire antenna.....

THANKS TO FT8 AND 2 RADIOS THE WEEKEND WAS NOT LOST DUE TO PROPAGATION. ONE RADIO WORKED FT8 THE
OTHER I KEPT BUSY TRUNING THE DIAL LISTENING TO 10 METER STATIC. IT WILL BE BETTER NEXT YEAR

Openings to South America then east coast on Saturday helped, but
otherwise conditions were lousy.  Something to look forward to
for the next few years.

Thanks had fun 73

First Contest

E-MAIL: blmerideth@cox.net

Conditions stunk. Must have been all ground wave

had a good time but had to work so took alot of operating time out

I had a great time in the 10 meter contest... My wife enjoyed my absence for 36
hours

Not much action this year.

73

Operated from EM79wu at 6619 Bellefontaine Rd, Huber Heights, OH 45424

Colocated with a SOTA activation, W0CRFR193, Genesee Mountain, Colorado.

Elecraft K3/10 at 5 watts to wire antennas.  Mainly ground wave contacts this year.  C U next time, 
73,  Dan  ke0tt

Conditions not great, but far better than last year's 6 QSOs/1 Mult/24 points. All the NC stations I
worked were my immediate neighbors and they would go from loud and clear to watery and weak. Nothing
from 2, 3, or 8 land and only 1 from 1. But it was interesting to see propogation march westward.
Activity really picked up around 1700Z on Saturday. I heard KH7M 599 as they worked stations around
me but they never heard me. Around 22-2300 I heard ZL6YOTA and we almost completed, but it just
didn't work. Still a fun contest.

2018 ARRL 10M CONTEST

Operated from FM29jw

CW Contacts: 14
Unique States / Providences: 7

14 CW QSOs x 4 CW Multiplier = 56 CW QSO Points
56 CW QSO Points x 7 Unique States / Providences = 392 Total Points

Thank you for the ARRL 10 meter Contest.

KICKED BACK OPERATION OF 10 METER CONTEST.....WORKING OUT
ANTENNAS ON 10..PLEASED CONSIDERING CURRENT BAND CONDITIONS

yaesu ft-817nd, 6m moxon, 10m moxon

5 watts to end-fed wire

First time doing the 10 Meter contest. I was calling CQ and S&P. Band conditions where tough and
challenging.

Rig: Icom 7600
Amp: Icom PW1 (1000w)
Ant: NA4AA Hex Beam @ 35 feet
S/W WriteLog V12

I clearly missed that big band opening everyone was raving
about...

No band conditions. See you on the next Solar Cycle...

Only had a 3 hr opening of the whole contest period
and mostly with a pipeline to Fla and South America
then a stray signal here and there til they all disappeared.

Spent just a few hours on Sunday afternoon to exchange a few Qs.  Only a few runs but mostly calling
CQ with no one there.

Propagation not much better tha last year. No propagation to Europe, the west coast, or Asia
Pacific. Worked only 21 states, and had to dig many stations out of the mud.

Good opening on Sat afternoon lasting a good 2-3 hours of E
propagacion with USA, before and after that just short hop
regional stations. Very few EU/AF stations heard and worked, no
AS stations heard nor worked. Very low part of the sunspot cycle,
hope next year We'll start to see improvements.

El qso termina con la confirmacion del contacto, hoy despues de 40
a?os sigo esperando las respuestas con alegria . Le pido a los colegas
hagan un esfuerzo en subir un archivo adif para alegrarnos.
LU4VZ
40 years I am still waiting for the answers with joy. I ask colleagues
to make an effort to upload an adif file to make us happy.
LU4VZ

No time for fun this time.

Modo SSB

lw9eka@gmail.com

Very little heard/worked on my 66ft long End-Fed wire

Band lousy

Much better conditions in the ARRL 10-meter contest this year than last.
�??On Saturday afternoon, had E-skip on 10 to W4 and W5, which allowed links on
to F2/TEP propagation to South America. Running just 5 watts, I logged CE, CX,
LU and PY stations via Es link. Double hop Es to HK, P4 and PJ2. Single hop Es
to W4 and W5.
�??On Sunday the band conditions not nearly as good, but see the northeast
states had strong Es to Florida. This in turn allowed them to link on to South
America. See DX maps, which clearly show this classic setup. Also, strong single
hop Es along the West Coast.
�??I experienced some weak Es in Kansas, and heard CO8RH, but he faded out while
I was fiddling with my hand key. I was able to work 9Z4Y on 10-meter CW."

100w Endfed Wire @15ft

I began as QRP, but decided to go to LOW power when South American DX started to come through

Not bad for a few hours. Conditions were not good...

MY FIRST ACTUAL CONTEST AS FAR AS SUBMITTING A LOG.

12TH ARRL 10M CONTEST

Amazing how activity will open a band!

2018 10M Contest

YET ANOTHER "FAILURE TO LAUNCH" (PROPAGATION-WISE) 10 METER CONTEST

Pleasantly surprised with the amount of band openings. Fun constest. K3, 750W Triband Yagi @ 35'

ONLY TURNED ON THE RADIO AT 1PM LOCAL ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON...
TO FIND THE BAND WIDE OPEN....ESPECIALLY, OUT WEST....SUNDAY
NOT GOOD ONLY WAY TO SAY IT...STILL FUN TO FIND 10M OPEN AT ALL..

Props made slim pickings

Condx not good at my QTH.  Only operated 9 hrs, so maybe I missed the good openings?

500W 6-BTV hidden inside fiberglass flagpole

Bad cold + bad conditions + bad weather = bad attitude and bad
score..........Bah Humbug!  [Ok, I had a little fun]

Not much to work Sunday only, bad line noise due East.

Band conditions pretty band both days, but had fun anyway

Usual excuses:
1. Poor Propagation when able to get on air.
2. Not able to get on air for very long.
Nice to have several local club members call me during contest
Better conditions & availability to operate next year, I hope!

Icom IC-706MKIIG with 80 watts output,Vectronics HFT-1500 Manual Tuner, Heil Pro Micro Headset,and
ZS6BKW dipole up 50 feet running N-S at 6,053 feet elevation in Laramie County,Wyoming,Grid DN-71.A
real slog of a contest.LOTS of spots seen,but only a precious few heard my 80 watts signal from my
wire antenna.Two each Argentina,one Costa Rica,and one Dominican Republic was my only DX. Another 12
contacts from the US made up the rest of this limited effort.Many stations heard sounded watery or
distorted,and the QSB was as rapid and deep as I have ever heard.This test begged for stacked Yagis
and a QRO Amp. Maybe next year, we can make a turn in the current sun spot cycle before the 2019
running of this event,but I'm not gonna hold my breath.Thanks for the contacts.November Seven Many
Zebras Walking

K3s failed at 1 PM Saturday, K3 used Sunday.  Amp is noisy KPA1500

Missed Friday night. Appears a couple of control cables got weed wacked when the

Wasn't sure how much time I would have to play in this one.
Missed Friday night except for a few Qs before and after
my XYLs work holiday dinner dance. Had some time Saturday
morning and afternoon to play. Nice opening to east coast
and then SA and Mexico. Was hoping for same conditions
Sunday, but not meant to be. Felt more like a VHF contest!
N1MM says I was on for 8 hours, but I'm sure it was at
least 9 or a bit more, calling CQ into the abyss forever
without a call back. Was happy to work as many DX and mults
as I did considering the bottom of the solar cycle is upon
us. Always enjoy playing in this contest, even at the bottom
of the cycle. Bettered my score from last year, so that's
a good thing! 73 Gene, N9TF
Rig, K3S 100 watts to a 2 element trband at 37 feet.

20 minutes into the contest and my radio stopped working.

Could only get on for a few minutes Friday evening and caught some Es.

Part time effort.  Lots of fun working the different prop modes.
KH7M answered my CQ on Sunday afternoon, and was an actual 599!

It was my unhappy attempt during most of the time dead band
with the only vertical antenna...anyway I tried it!

Vy bad condxs for 100 W + vert. ant

minimal condition in northern Europe, next time better.

Almost no condx on 10m at all, transceiver was scanning contionously and sometimes a nice catch
IC-746 with dipole and vertical, was fun, tu all fr fb qso, 73

Operation period of 6 hours approx.

CDR GROUP

PY2XIZ PY2GTA PY2AE PY2FMI PU2KFL PU2LEW

FT890AT Yaesu

ARRL

73

05/12/2017

EQUIPE BICHO DO MATO DX TEAM

only 100 w., balcony dipole! TNX 73

Mediterranean Sea

TNX 73!

TX 5Watts, ant - Magloop indoor

Icom 706 power 5 watts, ant :  Multiband vertical ECO

Poorest 10m i ever seen , 1hour qrv before lunch , than some hours in
afternoon!  No es link , some TEP? with SA produced 6 qsos !  This one
is not to remembered!  Congrats to DL2ARD/DH8BQA to be awake by thoses
conditions!  See you next maybe on 160 ...  73s

ARRL 10 meter Contest 2018: only one contact

Conditions not good, band never opened up except in spots.
Only thing heard Sunday was syllables.

K3,80w, vertical.

FT-950, AL-811H, AT2K, microHAM DIGI KEYER II
40m full wave horizontal delta-loop

weird condx some big signals around but mostly hard time with fast QSB

Rookie

Tough band condx.

I had a lot of fun trying to work a few south amedician stations
I managed one. I used my vintage FT-757GX for the contest. I
garked CQ.s on SSB but did not work any station. 73 Gerry

Conditions as expected at this time of sunspot cycle
except for very early morning opening VK time to USA
coast to coast.

Antenna: 3el Yagi at 15m

Interesting contest this year, and very slow going at times. SWS
predicted at least 10% depression in MUFs due to geomagnetic
activity and low solar flux, but luckily we had sporadic E! Heard
but couldn't work DL, F & HL around 1000UT on Saturday, and 9V at
0930UT on Sunday. Station comprised TS-480HX at 120W output,
5-band spiderbeam (4 elements on 10m) at 10m height. Thanks to
all the stations who answered my calls, and thank-you organisers
and managers for running the contest again this year!

Used  "SD"  by EI5DI worked very FB

Steve VK6SJ
Chris VK6LOL
Onno VK6FLAB

96 CW * 26 mults = 2880 in 2:10

10Mtr Section of old Cushcraft R7. 20 Mtr trap gone. Hopefully
the 10-12 Mtr is OK. Hopefully band will open up.

Well sorry if you can't hear them you can't work them 73 John

I made more contacts than last year, but conditions still were lousy. But, it was a lot of fun!

Remote from Japan where most of the activity is in the middle of the night.

Amazing how a few contest operators can bring a supposedly dead
band to life!

Thank you for sponsoring the contest.

VERY ERRATIC BAND CONDX.  NOT MUCH FUN OPERATING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SOLAR
CYCLE WITH 100 WATTS TO A WIRE ANTENNA, THOUGH.  FEWER QSO'S THAN LAST YEAR, BUT
MORE MULTIPLIERS.  ONWARD TO 2019!

Had a fun time-wish I could Dabble more-but Holiday honeydew list prevails.

Again, 500 W and dipole @ ~13M. Much better showing than last
year: more than twice the score. Very little E-W propagation from
here -- all of it the first day, with one QSO each to AZ, TX and
ID. Everything else was N-S or a bit to SSW (one QSO to AR).
Pretty noisy, but still enjoyable. Thanks for the QSO's, and
particular thanks to those who dug me out of the mud.
W2EG

10 METERS LIKE THE BUNNY IT GOES ON AND ON

FT450D + 4BTV Vertical at pond

There was a sweet opening on Saturday morning which lasted for a
few hours. Sunday was pretty poor. We had to quit around 21Z.

Thanks to all for the QSOs!

Band was, to say the least, challenging!!

Nice openings not reflected by beacons.

orian 2, 238c, 34c, inv l.

This contest let me try out my new Yaesu FTDX-3000 for the first
extended time. Wow! The receiver is excellent on this rig and I
could hear stations with no S-meter reading easily.  I started
the contest late around 2030 CST and found a phone station in IL
and a CW station in IA. It just goes to show that 10-meters is
open and we just need to call CQ.

Operated remote in Tokyo, Japan

Conditions were as expected making multipliers hard to come by.

This is my first contest. Finding it extremely difficult to get the log to be
accepted. Been at this about an hour for only two log entries.

Good contest. Need more time and better cndx.

In typing the log, I left out one QSO - this is my second submittal.

Although band conditions were still poor, my use of a modern transceiver (tnx to
my radio club, OCARC-NY) gave me a better chance of success and confidence for
the first time in several years!

Had Fun ; the 10 M band wave conditions were rather poor, especially on Sunday.
The signals did become very active and strong around noon {1700) on Saturday,
which saved the contest for me. Latin America got through here during short
intervals on both days. Thanks.

Conditions Friday and Saturday marginal, Sunday non-existance.
Can't wait for sunspots.

I operated from our family farm in Cumby, TX using my Flex 1500 and inverted vee at 30 feet.

propagation was not as good as last year, had to run 50 watts
not 5 watts from previous years. Using my 1990 vintage Kenwood
TS940S. Only running 50W as the final transisters are almost 30
years old and did not want to stress them...  I love my old radio
tunning into a g5rv jr at 15 feet.  No Waterfalll. No Decoder.
Just VBT and Notich to kill the ajacent channel interferance.
still runnung CT contest software.  Guess Im Old school. But would
love to have a new radio

Sunday conditions were less than desireable...

This was another WQ6X portable operation from W7AYT in Concord, Ca.
The last two years of the 10-Meter contest from W7AYT's location have
been HORRIBLE condx-wise.

I ran the usual Yaesu FT-1000mp & RigExpert Plus to control the radio.
A pair of Autek QF-1A filters and a JPS NIR-12 (for the sub RX) processed
the audio into a pair of Sharper Image wireless headphones (as seen on TV
or available at OwnZone.Com).  For SSB, the Electro Voice 664 did a beautiful
job; so say the 3 stations who worked me on 28.399 Ssb.

The Hygain 3-element 10-meter Long John yagi 13mh worked fabulously.
Unfortunately,a low SFI (71 max) and A/K Indexes of 10/3 (respectively)
made this weekend a TOUGH SLOUGH.

Sunday morning while waiting for the band to open I added new 6-watt
termination resistors to the WQ6X Lazy 8JK Sloper giving it a lower angle
of radiation and more easily matching with the MFJ-949E Versa Tuner II.
While I didn't intend it for 10 meters it worked as an alternate for CQ calls.

We had a BRIEF opening to S.A. putting the only 3 DX contacts in the log.
While I saw spots for VE's, XE's and KH6, none made it to the log.  A "ZL"
station was ALMOST heard, but no copy.  Because they send us a number (#),
it is imperative that I can at least get a 6+db S/N ratio on DX stations.

LooK for a writeup about this GiG soon at: WQ6X.Blogspot.Com

UGH!

Terrible condx but manged to work everyone I heard.

VERY BAD PROPAGATION TO ME

Family fun time making 10 meters radio!

FT-817ND 5W,  Dipole @100mh

IC-7300, 80w, 41M SLOPING WIRE.73 Szigy.

Radio Club Venezolano

Primer permiso 24 de abril 2018

Only had a couple of hours of operating time caused by our local
electricity supply company operating a 2 and one half hour mains
supply interuption (we call it "load shedding") for two of the
days during the key band open times. I also had a previous social
engagement that took out Sunday lunchtime! All in all only 7 QSO's
were made but considering the lack of sunspots that was quite an
achievement! Used an ICOM 736 barefoot with a 5 el yagi at 21m AGL.
Thnks to all the organisers!