On Sep 9, 1:51*pm, "JB" wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message

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JB wrote:
I used to work
Austrailia daily with 5 watts FM into a dipole DFQ.

The 10m repeaters make it all the more interesting.
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73, Cecil *http://www.w5dxp.com

You mean the QRM from co-channel repeaters in Australia, New York, Hawaii,
Virgin Islands, Florida and San Diego on the same PL? *Gee, you could trash
a whole band with repeaters just so everyone could have their own kerchunk.

Gosh, QRM on 10? Up on the FM side close to 30 where repeaters are
used, which is hardly even used in the high portion of the cycle, I
have never heard enough stations to cause QRM! In fact I have only
heard just a few repeaters there since the early nineties.

Tell you what: Better the band is full of ham kerchunkers and being
used than not being used by hams at all. As I recall, demand by the CB
services is what caused us to lose 11m and it also could cause us to
lose 10m. Ten meters reminds me of Lake Superior in Wisconsin some
years after the opening of the St. Lawrence seaway. Lake Superior was
a thriving resource fishery at one time for lake perch and lake trout.
The opening of the seaway brought in the sea lamprey which killed all
the fish. With no fish, even the the lampreys died. By the 1970's,
Lake Superior was like an empty aquarium: No fish, clean and clear.
Unused. Empty and and unused like 10 meters today.