*Friday September 09, 2011 The band was dead on my first scan. Then on the second scan...BAM...beacon signals started coming in from every direction. It was hard to end this scan because the band kept changing. Some beacons would drop out and others started making their presence known. EA4Q had the strongest signal of the bunch. It varied with QSB 579 to 599. It took two antennas to complete this scan. About half heard on the multi-band dipole and the other half on the Moxon. What a pleasure hearing so many beacons from such a wide area. The two previous days I heard nothing. 16:03 Z No 10m beacons heard 19:10---19:42 Z 28.1730 VA5LF Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada 1868 miles/3007 km 559 28.1820 VY0SNO Iqualuit,Nunavut,CA. 2184 miles/3515 km 539 28.1930 VE4ARM Austin,Manitoba,CA. 1454 miles/2340 km 539 28.1970 LU5FB Rosario,SF,Argentina 4735 miles/7620 km 539 28.1970 VE7MTY Pitt Meadows,BC,Canada 2423 miles/3900 km 559 28.1990 LU1FHH El Trebol,SF,Argentina 4648 miles/7479 km 519 28.2000 KH6WO Laie,Hawaii 4738 miles/7626 km Call& one 28.2000 LU4AA Buenos Aires,AR 4896 miles/7878 km ALL 28.2035 K6LLL Mission Viejo,CA. 2153 miles/3454 km 539 28.2118 WB5DYG Gilbert, AZ 1820 miles/2929 km 539 28.2165 N7MA Rose Lake, Idaho 2035 miles/3275 km 549 28.2265 N7MSH North Powder, OR 2166 miles/3486 km 559 28.2365 W0KIZ Denver,Colorado 1452 miles/2337 km 559 28.2495 K8NDB Yuma, AZ. 1989 miles/3198 km 549 28.2500 K6FRC/B2 Sutter Butte,CA. 2329 miles/3749 km 559 28.2630..EA4Q...Cuence,Spain........4246 miles/6801 km 579--599 28.2630 PT9BCN UNCOORDINATED BEACON 28.2750 PY2EMG Sao Paulo,Brazil 4494 miles/7231 km 529 28.2825 KD0GZJ Loveland, Colorado 1466 miles/2359 km 559 28.2868 W0ILO Sabin,Minnesota 1282 miles/2062 km 579 28.2880 WA7LNW Hurricane Mesa, UT. 1883 miles/3031 km 559 28.3000 K6FRC Tracy, CA. 2342 miles/3768 km 529 73 Don, kg4gvv South Carolina, USA Grid Locator:EM93wa *