my favorite band .. the 10 meter band from 28000 - 29700 khz 28000 - 28070 CW 28070 - 28100 Digital modes 28100 - 28300 CW and beacons 28300 -29000 USB 29000 - 29200 AM 29200 - 29700 FM
I don't know why, but there's something about HAM radio that just intrigues me to no end and always has. It's like a mix of magic and freedom to me. Magic obviously because in the right conditions of propagation you can listen and talk to someone on the other side of the planet, and freedom because anyone can do it. It's not going through some controlled network. -- No matter what other technologies come along, it will always be magic to me.
In north italy the 28 and 29,9 Mhz is not the station receicer in am o cw and ssb is not usated the ham,only the 1987 is usated in cw at 28,020 ,sorry i have the ciao radio L101 loop amplificated and Collins 51 s 1,seventy tree by i2/03897 Mi(jn45 qj my qth)
Hi, Ive been into ham radio for some 50, years now, having had 30 "enjoyable 30 years on the "headphones" I started in my early teens , having been a "class 1"for the last 22 years or so, I still enjoy "listening " as well of transmitting, now at 67, yo, this hobby is my "companion" as I live alone, it,s great to wake up and go to the "shack" (living room) and talk to the world, especially when we were "locked down", we were in "isolation" but not "isolated"! I recommend this hobby/ pastime to anyone who wants to "firstly hear the world" and then talk to it, safe in the knowledge that it is not like any "social media" formats, love "ham radio" and don,t get it confused with C.B. radio!!! it,s totally different , and you become "licenced " by the government, have a look on the "ham radio "websites" and see if you may like the freedom of "world transmissions"...73,s M0TJP.. CLASS 1,Devon...
I remember many years ago a fellow hamfriend and I (we live roughly 20 km apart) had a QSO on 10 meter FM via a repeater located in Boston MA (I think it was W1OJ). We both live in The Netherlands and we couldn't hear each other directly via line of sight but via the repeater in Boston we had a 5/9 with some QSB contact. Great days!
Now that's a "DX" qso, here in Finland some amateurs in the call zone 1 used a repeater during some tropo or aomething around 100-200km away with a ht on 2 or 70cm, when they were under 10km apart :D
Thanks, this is what Ham Radio is all about; helping each other. This is how we learn. I know that they're hams that have that greater than thou mentality but they are the exception to the rule. If i can't help someone learn I definitely won't hinder them. Thank you for all you do for the Ham radio community. 73 de K4APD. PS: We all have to learn at some point. It just takes time and lots of research.
This series is very helpful. It would be awesome if you put all of these in a separate playlist. Thank you so much for these. (I'm in US and very new to the HF world. These really help me know how to get started.)
10m is great listen between 29.670-29.690 for SSTV, when the band is open you can usually find some SSTV activity on 29.680, and there are quite a few repeaters on 29.677. My radio (HTX-100 wont do a tone burst to key a repeater) I can frequently hear VE1DBM on 29.677 from my QTH. Most of my 10m contacts have been SSTV. Fun band to hang around on. 73 - VE4BDE
Remember joining 10/10 nearly 30 years ago all the way from VK2 used portable sets in the mid 80's reaching across the planet even on amplitude modulation
Great video, thanks. This is just what I was looking for. I was very confused to the overall picture of 10m before watching this and a have a much more clear picture of the layout, what to expect and when to listen. 73
Thanks for a very informative video! Since I'd taken my 40m dipole down a few weeks ago for a trip out of the city with it, I decided the past few days to explore 10m with my MFJ telescoping vertical to try to see if I could listen in and make some contacts, as I'd never really explored the band. Your video gave me some ideas on where and when to listen and I managed to make my first 10m contact ever to Morocco this morning, followed shortly thereafter by a contact with Colorado from my QTH in Toronto, Canada. The rest of my time was spent monitoring the ARRL contest that filled the band with activity and I was also surprised to find some people on the national FM frequency talking to each other from across the US, though I was unable to connect with them. Your video was most helpful and today's observations and results confirmed much of what you taught with this video.
Nice presentation. Back in the late 60s early 70s 10 meter phone was mostly AM low power, converting things like CB radios. There was so much activity, so crowded, you could hardly believe it.
+Dirtboxhor Do you still have the same call? If your license expired you might be able to get it again! I'm a new HAM but I talk to a ton of older guys who lost track of the hobby with time and came back and were able to get their classification and call sign back or at least something close.
There's a lot of PSK-31 on 28.120 MHz. I also have an Icom R8500 and it's really great. I use it with Ham Radio Deluxe (*HRD*) and it works wonderful decoding various digital signals. I bought my R8500 just over two years ago and it's been a fun receiver. I also use to have an R75 I used for HF monitoring before getting the R8500 but ended up selling it because the R8500 just sounds better on HF. These are fun receivers and the quality is fantastic. Looks like your left side display lamp is burned out but they're extremely simple to replace on the R8500. When the first display bulb goes out in my rig I'm gonna replace all of them with LED's.
Hi; thanks for posting this. I have tended to ignore the 10m band for some reason. Having watched this, I tuned around (using my 60ft long[short!]-wire at about 20ft height) and had a quick QSO with VE2TFL in Quebec.
I talked all over the world on 10 meters, both on CW and phone. I think it is a great band. At least for a beginning ham it is a cheap band to get started on.
Thanks for the video, I take my Tech license in a few weeks and hope to do my general right after that. I am looking forward to learning more about the 10m band.
Excellent intro to the band. I have just started on HF with a QRP transceiver. Not sure how well it's doing yet. I think I may have to change my antenna location. 73s de N7MRF.
@Indrid Cold your story is very interesting, sorry you got yelled at by those high flutin' guys. Great you were able to work on radios, and anntenas, what a skill.
Picked up stations in Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and south America the other day on 10-meters. Unfortunately I do not have SSB capability, only FM Transmit and Receive and AM Receive but some of the SSB signals were so strong I could hear them on AM, albeit distorted, picked up some AM 10-meter as well in some odd spots like 28.490 and 28.323 here in Upstate NY. I ended up going over to 6-meters and heard some cool activity as well but was not able to find an FM DX station. I wish more people would use FM! Sure SSB is more effecient and goes farther in a way but a lot of us newbs don't have $500 to drop on a radio! Ah well. In the summer our massive 6-meter repeater (KD2SL 6-meter repeater look it up! Old Channel 3 antenna way up high) picks up FM stations "on accident" all the time which gives many the oppurtunity to sort of make a long distant contact and we have a 10-meter repeater up in the Adirondacks that just propagates everywhere in the summer, Lake Placid to South Carolina? No problem!
A couple years ago, I heard Scotland on 10 meters. I tried calling on my '840, had no luck. Found out the '840 has about had it............power out was down to 50 watts. I switched over to my '857D and tuned to where I heard Scotland, only to talk to Germany. Oh well.............I still talked to Europe on 10 meters, 100 watts, mobile 102 inch CB antenna on a 20 foot mast-pipe. Other bands are irrelevant here...........so I won't mention that I talked to Dorset, England on 20 meters like last week. Same radio, and a wire dipole. Oh, and I hold an Advanced class license...............KI0MX Have had it since April of 1998.
I dont know what kind of antenna connected to your receiver but you re lucky with that amount of noise. I am a 10m bander and I always have at least S8.
You sould check out the Puget Sound Area 10 Meter Amateur Radio Net happens on 28.345.00 every sunday night at 6:00 pm in the Seattle puget sound area.
This would be good to present again, as the solar cycle is heating up. Would be good to point out USA technicians have access to a phone section of this band. Is that the case in sone other countries?
Ethan Corsbie You can pick one up on Amazon. I suggest getting your General license and buying those massive HF radios. It’s more expensive, but soooooo much radio. You can do 10m on SSB with a Tech license.
Len Ricci I made a 10/11 meter dipole out of RG8X coax and some random green wire that I bought on Amazon for $8. I’m using the Anytone AT-5555N for my 10m radio, the AT-D878UV for my HT. I’m using the TYT TH-7800 for long range UHF/VHF. All excellent radios.
It is 19 October 2016. With the solar flux index being 77, the 10 meter band is closed tighter than Fort Knox gold reserve. 10 meter is ground wave propagation only. Many only have HF privileges on 10 meters only. Some people are getting rather board and are using 10 meter for ground wave propagation. I hear them on the scanner sometimes, a distant USB signal or AM signal with a lot of repeated transmissions because the two doing the ground was propagation are on the edge of the ground wave range. 10 meters is dead.
Thanks for these very helpful videos. I usually use 20 meters but want to try DX on 10 meters.Not sure what is the best antenna for limited space,I use a ham stick di - pole for 20 meters, pre - tuned by the manufacturer,(Moonraker). Can you advise me please. Frank UK M3 FEC.
that's why I talk on 27 555 not the international call frequency that's against ham radio operators are there pretty cool Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Kansas City
Question here, If someone has another radio like this say down south in Mexico, and if both stations are tune in same frequency band , can they communicate each other or how does it works and how do you know what signals r u picking up. Are u just picking up random stations 🤔
I'd recommend anyone that's taken the initiative to set up a SWL post to get their tech ticket at least. These days its so easy and you most likely have a good portion of the minimal knowledge required to pass already saturated into you. $15 for the testing portion and their are soooo many FREE sites avail. to you these days to study from. It not only gives you the little taste of HF on the tech portion of 10m, but pretty much everything above is open to work with even a 30$ Chinese dual-band HT. GET ON THE AIR :)
Hi. What is the furthest station you've heard on the 10 meter? I'm from Turkey and thinking about investing in a 10-meter setup. I was wondering if it's possible to reliably communicate with stations in North America. On the Black Sea coast all I hear on 2-meter (besides Turkish) are stations in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Not even anything in Arabic. I've picked up Bulgarian once but could never replicate.
I used to hear upper side band and lower side band signals from 28.3 megacycles to 28.6 megacycles. It seems upper side band is more popular for 10 meter contacts and then a switch to LSB is made to continue a long conversation.
@@OfficialSWLchannel "10 meter band is always Upper Sideband only the lower ham bands use LSB" That's a *convention* but not a law. Occasionally someone will use the "wrong" sideband and that's okay.
When there's nothing on 10 meters go to 27.555 USB and more likely you will be able to get your radio fun needs satisfied. Especially because ham radio operators are more likely to be jerks than the easy going folks on the freeband (27.410 to 27.995)
"Especially because ham radio operators are more likely to be jerks" Accusing an entire class of human as "jerk" is kinda jerkish. I encourage jerks to use a frequency illegally rather than clutter the legal bands.
I used to have the same receiver used in this video (Icom IC-R8500) and it was my all-time favorite receiver but soon as I got my first SDR (SDRplay) I ended up selling the Icom because I was only using the SDRplay because of it's expanded capabilities. I would have kept the R8500 but selling it freed up the money I needed to buy an Icom 7300 when they came out. I truly enjoyed my R8500 though and really wish I could have kept it. I still have my $100 SDRplay receiver and I absolutely love it, and it does everything the R8500 did (and THEN some) at a fraction of the price. Before that I had an Icom IC-R7000 receiver and while it too was a great receiver, the R8500 was far better.
Nearly continuous tones are likely one of the narrowband digital modes in particular PSK31. It actually has different tones but so closely spaced you might not notice. Other reasons also exist.
I been a ham since 1994. I have had an HF rig since 2015 but unfortunately never made a qso on 10 meters. Every time I scan the band or give a CQ, I get nothing.
question; i have a 10m half wave dipole, with a clunky W2AU Balun - a brand new, you beaut made in USA thing - i mounted it in my ceiling/roof void - is that dumb?? - Premise; i don't know more than i bought a radio 10m ssb usb am fm transceiver a decade ago, and this is the first serious attempt to hear something and make it work - Perhaps this antenna really needs to be an outdoor thing to have a hope....my coax run to the radio is 30m.... is that too much. cheers, good vid, lkd and subbed. Anyone?
Agreed. 10m is an amazing band when conditions are good. If you already have a PC you can get the kind of performance demo'd here using a software defined radio - take a look at the video on ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U3qvjjpzsQQ.html
Greetings and felicitations. I am considering getting my amateur radio license. For the entry level technician license, some band plans say the technicians get 28.0Mhz to 28.5Mhz, with digital, CW, being 28.0Mhz to 28.3Mhz. From 28.3Mhz to 28.5Mhz I have seen there are phone privileges for any mode from 28.3Mhz to 28.5Mhz. However, other places say 28.3Mhz to 28.5Mhz is only USB for technicians and can not use LSB, AM, and FM at all on 10 meters. I have heard technicians calling AM around 28.49Mhz and LSB just about everywhere from 28.3Mhz to 28.5Mhz. They, of course, also use USB, the preferred, but not required, contact mode. Are technicians only allowed USB from 28.3Mhz to 28.5Mhz? I have called on 28.49Mhz AM. I just can not seem to get a clear answer on this. Some places say yes, some say no.
"Are technicians only allowed USB from 28.3Mhz to 28.5Mhz? I have called on 28.49Mhz AM." AM is double-sideband which means if you dial 28.490 MHz, your sidebands extend from 28.487 MHz to 28.493 Mhz so you're good. "CW, RTTY/data, 200 watts PEP maximum power CW, phone, 200 watts PEP maximum power" PHONE means talking: AM, FM, SSB. It's all "phone".
I know the just of ham radio. But don't understand how it work or why a lot of people find it a hobby. But I'm trying to understand bc it's somehow really interesting
It's just a lot of fun, at least for me. Everyday you'll learn something new or make a new contact. I'm a technician so I am only on VHF (very high frequency) and UHF (ultra high frequency) but it's neat to learn how it works or how to build equipment. There is a really neat system called the WIN System that uses the Internet to connect 100 repeaters over 4 countries, I've spoken to Europe, Australia, Isreal and Japan using it. Most hams call it cheating because it uses the Internet but it's just a lot of fun. If you liked citizen band (CB), you'll love ham radio. 73's
I got my Ham license in April of 2015 and haven't heard a WORD on 10 meter yet? When will I hear on 10 meters.....tell me so I can start getting excited.
Patrick, as of now (11/10/2015) the sunspot cycle is heading down and won't peak for another 7-10 years. However, as the video says, there will be sporadic E skip. If you do not have a full blown HF rig (good ones can be had for $600-900 new), recommend you look for a decent used Radio Shack HTX-10 exclusively for 10 meters. They can be had off eBay for around $100. They not only do AM, they can do SSB as well. ALSO, they can do FM like he describes - with the ability to work the 10 meter repeaters, offset, Pl tones and all. This is a god video on 10 meters, so grab a rig and put your licence to work. 73 de K6WHP
+Jacek Kubiak That is great, I have a Yaesu FT 857d rig but am using a Buddipole Deluxe for my base antenna on HF. I'm probably going to need a better antenna for 10 meters than this one. Although if band conditions are good it might be ok. Love ham radio.
+Patrick Slevin you need the right time of day and a decently tuned antenna. on any given day I can hear alot of stations in south america, central america, europe africa etc etc., from here in florida. Start tuning around 9am from 28.350 to 28.5 for ssb. listen for beacons and CW activity below 28.300. tune throughout the day, The band will be active until 5 6 or 7 pm depending how good your antenna is. you can use a random wire with decent results as long as its tuned to 10 meters. Have fun! 10 is a great band!!
Terrific, are there any different regulations in Canada than the USA for ham radio, or are both countries equal. Can a ham in Canada do exactly what a ham can in the USA?
