so i was just spinning the dial on 10m last tuesday afternoon, wasnt really expecting much honestly because conditions around here have been pretty mediocre lately, and all of a sudden im hearing stations from south america, europe, japan all piling in at once. like wall to wall signals. i managed to work a ZL and a few EA stations which i havent done on 10m in probably two years at least. logged like 14 new entities in about 90 minutes which is more than i usually get in a whole month of casual operating.

also saw some chatter that the Icom IC-7760 is getting closer to actually shipping to US dealers, somebody posted a hands-on video from a japanese ham and it looks pretty impressive though the price is gonna be... yeah. and apparently there was some kind of digital mode sprint last weekend that i completely missed because i forgot to check the calendar. anyone else been taking advantage of these conditions or am i just lucky with my timing

yeah 10m has been something else this solar cycle, we're definitely riding a good peak right now. i worked a VK on 10m SSB last thursday with just my little vertical and 100 watts, signal was 59 both ways which still kind of blows my mind. been telling the guys at my club for months to get their antennas sorted before conditions start rolling back and now theyre finally listening lol

on the 7760 thing, ive been following that pretty closely. the japanese release has apparently been out for a bit but US distribution keeps slipping. the form factor is interesting, kind of unconventional with the detached head unit design but i get what theyre going for if you want to mount it properly in a vehicle or a clean shack setup. price rumors are all over the place, some people saying north of five grand which is oof but thats just how it goes these days i guess. still running my 7300 and honestly not complaining

im pretty new to this, just got my general like four months ago, and i actually tried getting on 10m after reading this post and holy cow i was not expecting to hear so much. i only have a dipole in the attic so i figured id hear nothing but i actually pulled in a couple stations from what sounded like spain? didnt manage to complete a contact yet because i got nervous and fumbled my callsign haha but still exciting. what part of the band should i be listening on for DX, i was just kind of randomly tuning around 28.4 or so