so i was just doing some casual monitoring yesterday afternoon and 10 meters just exploded out of nowhere, i mean i havent heard it like that in probably two years at least. was working stations in europe and south america back to back for like 45 minutes straight with my vertical and only 100 watts, no beam or anything fancy. propagation reports were showing some solid F2 going on and the solar flux has been creeping up lately which i guess explains it. felt like the old days honestly.

also on a totally different note has anyone been following the chatter about the new Icom IC-7760? ive been reading bits and pieces on various sites and it sounds like they might be going with a remote head design similar to what they did with the 7100 but obviously way more capable. theres a post floating around from some Japanese ham who got a look at it at a regional show and the specs if they're accurate are pretty wild. curious if anyone here has seen more recent info cause i cant find anything confirmed from Icom directly yet.

yeah 10m was nuts, i caught the tail end of it around 4pm local and still managed to log a few italians and what sounded like a Brazilian station though the pile up was pretty thick by then. my noise floor was actually behaving for once which helped. its funny cause i had literally just told my wife the band was dead and to not expect me to be on the radio much this week and then bam there it is lol. fingers crossed this keeps up through the weekend i have a few entities i really want to knock off the list.

on the Icom thing i heard something similar, a guy in my local club was talking about it at the last meeting. he seemed pretty confident it was real but who knows how these things get distorted by the time they make the rounds. i'm not in a rush to upgrade from my 7300 honestly but if the price is reasonable i might at least go take a look at Dayton if they have it there.

im pretty new to hf so maybe a dumb question but how do you even know when 10m is open like that, do you just check it periodically or is there an app or something that alerts you? i have a technician license so i can use some of 10m i think but havent really tried yet cause everyone told me it was mostly dead. sounds like maybe i picked a bad time to start paying attention to it ha.