I was listening at 00:00 Zulu. Everyone stopped transmitting right at the cutoff. I was having fun contacting never before heard countries this weekend, then everyone vanished.
@@toddcamnyc That's the magic of 10m at the solar cycle peak. Mobile stations can work mobile stations on the other side of the world. Portable QRP can work portable QRP from the other side of the world. But on big contest weekends, the band gets dominated by the super stations. This fall and winter should be great for 10m, for modest stations when there isn't a big contest going on.
Great job. Lots of DX on 10 meters. 12 and 11 wide open as well. I got over 1K FT8 contacts thru the bands on 50 watts and less ! . Just a 4:1 home made antenna vertical on ground with radials . I was running 2 antenna 25 ft and 43 ft . 2 radios/ 2 laptops/ band pass filters . 1 -200 AH battery. ran 2 days. plenty of power. Solar charging now. 200 watt solar. all portable. Bands super ! I was hearing 80 and 160 but my wire just too short to TX on them. The only band quit was 6 meters in NY . I did get 29 MHZ AM contact ! Was on QT 60 . I had my 7300 on 20 meters FT8 . 2 radios at once. Got little sleep 2 days. Even CB contacts on SSB. Lots of Puerto rico and some South America like Brazil. Jamecia on CB SSB . 73
@@HamRadioConceptsWhere also approaching the peak of the 11 year solar cycle. Higher bands are dead during solar minimums, even with lotsa Hams using the bands like years ago 😊
