December 8, 2005
ARRL 10m contest predictions
ARRL 10m contest is this weekend. I have created some short and long path propagation predictions from Northern California for the weekend. I used HamCap & SSN 30 for these simulations (that’s what IonoProbe just gave me as effective SSN).
Briefly, the operating plan could be this:
- 00-02Z: VK/ZL/Pacific, maybe JA until 01Z
- 0200Z: NCCC rally on CW (28040)?
- 0230Z: NCCC rally on SSB (28400)?
- 0300Z-15Z: go to bed, or do something else
- 15Z: start working South Americans
- 16Z: check for VU/9Y/HS/9M for long path opening, if not… work South Americans. Skew path to Europe by pointing antennas to Africa/South Atlantic?
- 17Z: check for VU & Middle East long path, if not… work South Americans & ZS. Skew path to Europe by pointing antennas to Africa/South Atlantic?
- 18-19Z: check for long path for Northern Africa, Southern Europe (EA/I), and keep working for South Americans (by now they must all be QSO B4?) & ZS. Skew path to Europe by pointing antennas to Africa/South Atlantic?
- 20-21Z: check for long path for Northern Africa & Southern Europe, short path to South America, ZL/VK & ZS. Skew path to Europe by pointing antennas to Africa/South Atlantic?
- 21-00Z: short path to South America, ZL & VK, maybe JA after 23Z. Skew path to JA through South Pacific?
Also, look for daytime (or 24h/day?) Sporadic-E openings to midwest and south-east USA — and probably elsewhere in USA/Canada, too. Also, meteor scatter is possible 24/7… just remember to talk/send code really fast.
Complete maps can be found here. My personal plan is to operate from W6YX (at least few hours on Friday night).
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You left out some likely (or at least possible) openings that we can exploit from W6YX.
From about 16-21Z we might be able to work Europe by pointing at Africa/SouthAtlantic and running high power into an efficient low-angle antenna. We can then take advantage of the skew/backscatter path from the South Atlantic into Europe.
Similarly, while we are working into the Pacific around 21-24Z we may work JA and Asia by a similar skew/backscatter path.
It is always interesting to try pointing one antenna on the direct path, and another on the skew path, and switch back and forth …
John KJ9U
Comment by KJ9U — On 8-12-2005 at 10:56:18 AM
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