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6 and 11m bands

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  • 11-02-2017 12:15pm
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    Fred Swanson
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    dxhound2005
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    This is an example from 2009 of the amateur club station in Dundalk making 10 metre (28 MHz) contacts around Europe, mostly Germany.



    The band is hugely influenced by the 11 year sunspot cycle, and for a lot of years in the cycle it will be essentially dead. At the peak of the cycle especially on Autumn afternoons you can hear West Coast Americans booming in, and signals from practically anywhere can pop up. You can check the online receiver in Holland to see if there is any activity.

    http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

    11 metres (27MHz) is not an amateur radio allocation, unlike the other bands you mentioned, but it shares the same characteristics as 10 metres. 6 metres (50 MHz) is known as the Magic Band because of some occasional long distance openings, on what is really a VHF band like 2 metres.


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    martinedwards
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    11m is the CB band.

    keeping legal power you CAN work the world when the conditions are right.

    on the 10 & 12m bands using 100w I've worked a total of 118 countries since 2012.

    Mainly CW and digimodes, but a little SSB too

    BUT

    the sunspot cycle is in decline, and the bands are VERY quiet, and likely to remain so for the next 5 years


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