I've been able to make some weekday scans of the 10m beacon band recently - the one today at a nominal centre time of 16.30z took over an hour to complete, long enough for propagation patterns to shift between start and end of scan. Unfortunately under these conditions when the band is open to the states it just isn't possible to listen for all beacons in a single scan and today I left unidentified a number of weak beacon signals - often beacons not sending callsigns frequently enough. Those beacons sending concise messages without gaps in transmission get heard much more frequently! > Log for 10 Nov 2011 > 08:00 : 3B8MS S2 08:00 : 4X6TU S2 08:00 : CS3B S8 08:00 : DL0IGI S2 08:00 : GB3RAL S5 08:00 : OH5SHF S1 08:00 : OH9TEN S8 08:00 : RK3XWA S4 08:00 : RR9O S6 08:00 : SV2AHT S6 08:00 : SV3AQR S6 08:00 : SV5TEN S8 08:00 : VK3RMH S2 08:00 : VK5WI S1 08:00 : YM7KK S5 08:00 : ZL2MHF S1 08:00 : ZL3TEN S2 16:30 : 4X6TU S2 16:30 : AB8Z S5 16:30 : CS3B S7 16:30 : GB3RAL S6 16:30 : K4DP S2 16:30 : K4FUM S3 16:30 : K4MTP S4 16:30 : K5AB S3 16:30 : K5DZE S5 16:30 : K6FRC S4 16:30 : K6FRC/2 S4 16:30 : K6FRC/4 S2 16:30 : K8TK S4 16:30 : K9CW S4 16:30 : K9EJ S3 16:30 : KA1EKS S6 16:30 : KA3JOE S1 16:30 : KB1QZY S5 16:30 : KB2SEO S4 16:30 : KB3ZI S2 16:30 : KB9WGA S2 16:30 : KE4TWI S5 16:30 : KF4MS S7 16:30 : KG4GVV S3 16:30 : KI4AED S4 16:30 : KI4LEV S5 16:30 : KJ4QYB S4 16:30 : KN8DMK S6 16:30 : KU4A S3 16:30 : LU4AA S4 16:30 : LU4JJ S2 16:30 : LU5FB S3 16:30 : N1KON S5 16:30 : N1ME S5 16:30 : N2MH S4 16:30 : N2UHC S3 16:30 : N3NIA S3 16:30 : N4PAL S4 16:30 : N4QDK S6 16:30 : N4VBV S2 16:30 : N7MA S3 16:30 : N7SCQ S5 16:30 : N8PVL S5 16:30 : N8RT S5 16:30 : NC4SW S3 16:30 : ND4Z S4 16:30 : NJ3T S3 16:30 : PT9BCN S6 16:30 : PY2EMG S5 16:30 : PY4MAB S4 16:30 : SV3AQR S9 16:30 : SV5TEN S7 16:30 : VA5LF S5 16:30 : VE3SWS S4 16:30 : VE3TEN S5 16:30 : VE4ARM S6 16:30 : VE4TEN S5 16:30 : VE7MTY S3 16:30 : VP8ADE S1 16:30 : VY0SNO S8 16:30 : W0KIZ S4 16:30 : W1DLO S4 16:30 : W2DLL S6 16:30 : W3AW S4 16:30 : W3HH S5 16:30 : W4RKC S4 16:30 : W4TIY S5 16:30 : W5TXR S3 16:30 : W6WX S4 16:30 : W8YT S3 16:30 : WA2NTK S4 16:30 : WA4FC S5 16:30 : WA4GEH S6 16:30 : WA4OTD S6 16:30 : WD9CVP S4 16:30 : WF4HAM S4 16:30 : WY5I S5 16:30 : WZ8D S2 16:30 : XE3ACB S2 16:30 : ZS6DN S5 23:00 : GB3RAL S5 > Times are UTC for the middle of beacon-band scan > All F2 or F2 backscatter except: GB3RAL tropo, DL0IGI & OH5SHF F > backscatter > Received on 1/2L vertical > > 73 Steve G0AEV IO81WL > >