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Well, of course it never really went away. Over the last few weeks and days, I’ve hearing people talking about what they’ve been working on 10m FM. Occasionally when I’ve been in the shack I’ve put the rig on 29.600MHz FM and have heard a good few stations coming through. Many people have reported making QSOs through a US repeater (New York?) on 29.620MHz. This evening, coming home, I drove outside the car park, under the low barrier and put the Comet UHV-6 antenna on the car ( it’s too tall to fit under the barrier). As I drove home, I tuned around 10m FM. Fascinating!The most distant station was, and I think I have the call correct, was KF7EZ/M in 7 land! He was looking for a friend of his in the US 4 call area! I tried to call him and let him know he was being heard in the UK. Also heard VA3QRM, a W2 in New Jersey and W5AF (I think- I wasn’t writing calls down!). Not entirely sure how well the UHV-6 works on 10m FM. Fascinating listening and I’ll repeat the exercise tomorrow. Hopefully I will make a QSO before long. And in the meantime, I must remember to take the big antenna off the car before I head in tomorrow morning!

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