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
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
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.)
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.
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.
+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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
@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.
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.
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 🤔
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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'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 :)
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?
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 ua-cam.com/video/U3qvjjpzsQQ/v-deo.html
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!!
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 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.
What is dead to one person is alive to another, for example the one who says it is dead may live in apart of the world where 10 meters may be just that for some time, but to others like my self (UK) it is pretty much open for the past few months. Ant one who says that it is dead do not listen but try for your self and then see. but like ANY band that exists you will get times that it is not as good as others, but again better than others at other times. its all down mostly to conditions. and of course a good enough antenna. Mike M6YMN
Yes, plenty of traffic. Today I was on a 15 minute break at work and easily made two contacts. It's a popular band, I don't know what your ham friend is thinking...
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.
I have been away from Amatuer radio for a number of years, only recently returned. I am surprised at the amount of people that have kept this alive
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)
my friends think im a weirdo for being obsessed with it and wanting to use it all the time lol
Not much freedom. Government knows your business.
I agree
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
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
Thanks for the time you spent explaining 10 meters. I will have to watch it again and take notes.
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.
K4APD That is why I like making these videos .. I have started at one point and did not know anything ... always glad to know I helped someone else 73
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.)
these series of video's have been a great help thanks for the great work and time.your neighbor in New Brunswick Canada VE9 RAM
Wow after watching this video I got back on 10m and have made some great QSOs! Thanks for the inspiration..
Building my first antenna outside of VHF/UHF a 10m dipole. Thanks for the Fantastic introduction to HF!
I'm am only a Tech, but I have been making many contacts on 10 meter. 28.300- 28.500 USB, is the only freqs I can use, but damn it's fun. 73's KD9AKK
tullyman82 I love the 10 meter ham band
What radio are you using, I just got my technician license but wanting to get on 10m
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.
What antenna, and transceiver are you using? KO4DJT
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.
Very helpful video. I'm going to give it a shot tonight on 10m first time using HF
Great review. In 1989 through 1992 I would make contacts from my QTH in St Louis to Germany and Japan on 10 meters 73s
It must get out further than 11 meter?
Hoping to get my license this month if the exam is still being held. I got a stryker 955 I can't wait to bust out
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.
I miss Ham radio. Had my license when I was 13 years old, KA9WYB. I remember getting my WAC certificate (all CW) thanks to 10 meter mostly.
+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.
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.
Cool and Good Luck !
Did you get your General? I’m studying for mine.
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
My favourite too. I am looking forward to the next maximum.
I learned a lot watching you scroll through. Very cool
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.
Thank you for taking the time to comment ! 10 Meters is probably my favorite amateur radio band .. 73's from Montreal
After today I can understand why! 73 and take care.
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.
It will come back!
tnx for the very informative video. i will give the 10m band a shot. hope, propagation will improve soon .
Very instructive vid on how to access 10 meter band. Thank you and kind regards.
40 Meters is my favorite band but 10 I enjoy as well thanks for producing the video!!!
There is only one call frequency on 40m. 😕
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.
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?
Recent UK M7 I hadnt even tried 10m .Very interesting thank you.
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.
Nice band, l 💜it
I have a ham friend who worked around the world on 10 meter AM Phone on only 20 Watts! FROM WA1LYT MERIDEN, CT.
This was relatively easy to do during solar cycle peaks, like the one during 1989-91, and again around 2000 - W1AMJ
Yes Pete! When the band opens its very good! Vic W1JAX and Fred WA1HMC both were on 10 meter AM!!!
Indrid Cold good stuff dude! Where's a good place to learn about all the home made stuff? I'm just getting into radio.
@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.
10 Meter Band activity is fun when it's there!
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.
learned more in this video than any other materiali have seen.
If SSB USB starts at 10000, I don't quite understand why you suggest to switch from AM to USB @29-29150. Please elucidate.
Thanks!
Great indicator if you can hear anything on 10M the rest of the bands like 15/20M is open
Built the KG0ZZ 10m vertical, tuned up with the MFJ
Expect to hear anything in vertical? So far nothing yet, same as 6m vertical
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.
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 🤔
Great video, thank you for the information on 10m.
Thanks I love speraddic signal s this is what keeps me alive 73s
+Mark Montgomery
"Speraddic". Is that a cowboy who can't stop buying new spurs???
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)
Steven de Meer this frequency is fun.
Triple 5 and stay alive.
Indrid Cold hang out on 27.555 usb and you’ll hear people from all over the world. Sometimes I freeband in 11 meters under CB channel 1.
"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.
Great video , and amazed by your memory power ,, all the frequencies you remember modes and times ,, beyond me good stuff Shane uk
i realize this is an older vid' but still learned a lot from watching it.... thanks!
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.
It is wide open almost every day lately and very often even at solar minimum, you need to check regularly
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.
10 meter band is always Upper Sideband only the lower ham bands use LSB
@@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.
Thank you Great video! I'm just getting into ham radio...trying to figure out which mode for which frequency isn't easy to determine.
@ 6:38 qsl.net 'beacon list' 28.2198Mhz - KC2OVW - WERNERSVILLE, PA. 250mW, Experimental antennas reactivated 12 Oct 14
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.
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!
I loved eleven and ten in the day
Fascinating topic. I’m trying to listen on my new PL-660. When is the best time of day or year to pick up signals?
Winter months are better and anytime during daytime, in Summer with sporadic E skip openings , sometimes all night too
Thanks for posting, very interesting.
what radio do you have? i want to buy one.
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.
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.
When will it open here in Ohio
Hey, great orientation for beginners. Really good. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Dave Ferreira This is idea of my channel to help others starting in the radio hobby !
OfficialSWLchannel Yes its really great idea - I'm subscribed now. thanks
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.
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
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’m a Tech tryna get my Gen. Man this has been a super informative video. You’ve got a new sub. Waves from Alabama. KN4EQG
Great Video !
Great vid, 10 meters will be back soon with the new solar cycle. Beautiful radio what is it?
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 :)
Do you teach ham classes? If not you should consider doing some! 73's
Very informative, thanks much.
Nice video showing the band.
Must be nice to get into HF during a peak of solar activity! I am getting into it as a new HAM, just in time for a lull in activity! :(
There is always tons of activity, don't worry too much about the solar cycle
Awesome Vid again mate!
djappnew thank you
What state is your demo coming from?
Quebec Canada
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?
i usedto talk to freinds in the other side of texas via the boston repeater nearly everday while driving to dallas for work de KD5DNK
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 ua-cam.com/video/U3qvjjpzsQQ/v-deo.html
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 Slevin summer is not the best for 10 meters .. Start listening by mid october and through winter you will hear some signals for sure !
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
+Patrick Slevin
HAve worked more then 300 countries on 10mtrs... you need propaer time in 12 year period...
+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!!
I just passed my technicians license
Have you ever thought about getting your license?
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 have been picking up morse
what brand is that radio..name here is Pedro Rivera N2OUS..73's from puerto rico.u.s.a.
This is the Icom IC R8500 Wideband receiver
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.
The 8500 is great, I would not sell mine for sure. but like you, I don't use it much since I have the SDR running.
They don't call it "Sporadic E" for nothing
Is 10 meter radio still going strong? I have a galaxy export DX 55 hp putting the dipole up tomorrow
in this period of low solar activity you have to take a listen from time to time, last I heard some activity was last week
What are the continuous tones you often run across while going through the 10m band?
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.
Very well done.. Learned a lot.. Thank you!
What would be the average R.F. power required to optimize DX on this band
Robert Dixon When its open its open. 5 watts ive worked quite a few states even in the solar minimum we are in right now
thank you for the video
Is CW active on 10 meter?
yes 28000-28300 in general many CW beacons from 28150 -28300
Nice video. Just a suggestion. When you talk, lower the volume. Learned a bunch from your video. (73) KO4DJT
Thanks for the education on the 10M band. KC9ZJB
Helpful thanks!
awesome
A very informative video. 73's KD2NQF
I heard a woman from Honduras, or Mexico on 28.6. Interesting!
cool propagation was nice
I'm just getting into the radio hobby but I had an old ham guy say 10 meter is more or less dead.
cmarchi128 really not ... been listening to 10 meters every day in the past month ... lots and lots of signals ...
What is dead to one person is alive to another, for example the one who says it is dead may live in apart of the world where 10 meters may be just that for some time, but to others like my self (UK) it is pretty much open for the past few months.
Ant one who says that it is dead do not listen but try for your self and then see. but like ANY band that exists you will get times that it is not as good as others, but again better than others at other times. its all down mostly to conditions. and of course a good enough antenna. Mike M6YMN
I'm a ham - quite often, it's hard to find a clear frequency to call CQ on 10 meters. I made a contact to brazil today from my car, 5200 miles away.
remingtonh when you hard to find a clear frequency are you saying there is alot of traffic on the band?
Yes, plenty of traffic. Today I was on a 15 minute break at work and easily made two contacts. It's a popular band, I don't know what your ham friend is thinking...
Est-ce que j'entends un accent? John in Sherbrooke QC
De montreal ici
Great video thanks
nice tutorial