Jackie wrote:

Mike-- not a good time to hear distant beacons on 10 meters. Beacons are
good tests of propagation- if you can hear them, chances are you can make
contacts to wherever the signal's coming from. Tune your radio in to 28.254
MHz and you'll hear a local beacon, N0AR, from St. Paul. It transmits at 500
mW in 10 WPM Morse. As winter approachs, you'll start to hear more distant
beacons on 10. Last winter, I was hearing them from the west coast, Canada,
Texas and Mexico quite easily, but 10 meters is a pretty "dead" summertime
band, except for the occasional opening.

Jackie

Although regular F1/F2 propagation is becoming more difficult for the
10-M band because of the declining solar cycle, there's still the
possibility of sporadic-E propagation at any time of the day or night.


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