Introduction to the 10 meter amateur radio band

hey guys welcome to another radio video and this is in the spirit of continuing the hf amateur radio bands so today we're talking about the 10-meter am bank it's a pretty big band it's from 28 to 29 dot 700 megahertz a twenty eight thousand to twenty eight twenty nine thousand seven hundred kilohertz and it's personally my favorite band of all i've always left ten meters and for multiple reasons the biggest drawback of the ten meter band is because of its very high frequency in the hf spectrum unless solar activity is high there isn't much to to do you'll maybe hear some local hands talking a little bit like a you know that twenty seven megahertz c beam and just you know line-of-sight it is very dependent on solar flux and solar activity so unless we are in a high state of solar activity it doesn't propagate necessarily very well but even in low solar activity periods it's really worth it to tune around you never know what you can hear and one of the phenomenon that happens quite often on this man is what we call sporadic a skip which can give this band a all night working range of up to you know what thousand two thousand kilometers away for example here in the early summer from June July we often have patches of sporadic II and well you know it can be midnight and you'll hear stations from down in Florida Alabama Texas I love this band because you never know what you can hear and we are at the peak of solar activity right now and what's cool about that is that this ban is pretty much open every day and it's been open every day for the past few months and what's nice is probably the best qualities of this band low noise so it's because of its higher in frequency it has much less noise than the other bands and AM radio operators can use really low power and still be heard across the world now because of its high frequency most of the time it's a daytime band from sunrise to sunset and unless there is what we call sporadic a skip it usually isn't open at night but you might hear local ads though chatting around so you know chill around you never know and sporadic a skip even though it's more prevalent in in North America in june/july and a little bit around December actually started a skip can happen any day of the year you never know when it can happen it's really nice so a daytime band mostly but very very nice most of the communications here are in upper sideband but of course will go around a man and show you a little bit what the different singles are I don't know if we'll hear many signals it's about midday here noon which is 1700 UT and we'll try to see if we can hear any singles at this time so the first part of the man I'll chain around and CW because the first part is going to be more stoked have some signals because of the nature of the 10-meter hand band you rarely hear signals that are very close most of the time you'll hear singles that are very very far away so this is a great band 4d Xing countries far away the first few stations and more Scout shows us that the band is actually open around 2007 now I'll switch usually to upper side band because here we now have digital modes that can happen this is a jt65 digital mode 28 or 76 radio teletype the man is definitely open 28 102 28 150 usually has some CW signals also mostly amateur radio stations that are slower in speed under CW l must code we also have part of the band I would say up to 28 300 you'll have lots of beacons and this is nice because the beacons that you hear from where propagation is actually working so you will hear some meters here one this is a beacon the beacons on a 10 meter ham band are are spread all over the world a lot of them in the United States but they're really spread all over the world in what's cool is that you can actually take a list on the web there are a few lists of beacons and you can compare the beacon where from from what region the beacon is and then you'll know that from that area to your own propagation is working on a 10 meter hand band which is cool and it's a great way to learn Morse code because you can listen to these Morse code signals and trying to ID their call letters is a great way to actually learn some Morse code there's spread all around from 2150 to 2300 another one here they're often very weak a few watts only beacons are also a great way to understand or to know if propagation is working on Timmy turn around and here starting at 28 300 well I'll stay an upper sideband for some sign bang signals faster a little bit much activity at this time Oh Hotel Charlie five stations wrong I'm a fan employer you know the CDP do what Oh sundays are more active than others weekends are often more active on 10 meters and of course when there's contests on 29 megahertz you can switch to amo from 29 to 29 150 29 200 you'll often hear a Emmer's that enjoy talking in that mode on the and then the last part of the band not all receivers actually can do this mode but if you have FM on your shortwave receiver most stations and the 29 300 up to 29 700 Arion FM mode one of the areas that school is also 29600 229 700 there's a lot of amateur radio repeaters and fm and if you stand on one of the frequencies of either 626 46 60 and 680 chances are you will hear at some point a repeater I don't know if it's still active but I remember a few years ago here's one it's not very strong sometimes were stronger than that I remember like I said 29 660 a few years ago had this really amazing receiver in the Virgin Islands and I remember back then even with a small scanner that goes up to 29 660 in FM mode I would hear it with the little telescopic antenna almost daily that's the typical 10 meter amateur radio band one of my favorites and one that you should actually try if you want to have one propagation is good and especially in the weekends you hear stations from all over the world here in the mornings Eastern North America where I am in Montreal in the morning from I would say local time from 9 to about 1 p.m. that's equivalent to fourteen to eighteen hundred UT I will very often hear lots and lots of European stations on the 10 meter band and I really like that blogging all countries of Europe which is pretty cool so that's the 10 meter band why not tune around and don't forget if you're about midday or you know lady late morning midday early afternoon why not take a listen one little fact here since it's a daytime band the path from the station to your area usually needs to be in daylight so you can understand that the path from u to the stations will change as the day goes on for example here in eastern North America in the morning the daytime pad goes up to Europe so whilst your stations from Africa Europe and as they progresses then we'll get more local into stations from South America for example because we are in the full daylight to Europe you know and early afternoon here Europe gets into darkness especially in the winter so we'll hear stations all here from Montreal stations South United States Caribbean South America and then as day progresses since the daylight is more to our west then we'll hear stations from the west coast California here maybe British Columbia Canada Alaska and Pacific Hawaii so it's really really interesting to listen in regularly during the day and see the stations and get acquainted with the area's you hear depending on the time of day which is pretty cool so I hope you enjoyed this a cool little video on the 10 meter amateur radio band and 73

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Keywords: shortwave, radio, ham, amateur, icom, degen, tecsun, satellite, swl, 10-meter Band, Amateur Radio Frequency Allocations, Amateur Radio (Hobby)

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Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 13 2014