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BJR Gerard,

Best times on 30m for DX are after dark, I find in the late evening the band is open to all Pacific, All Asia, All Africa, and much of America and sometimes Europe too, all at the same time! Not that you will get them with 1W of course!

With 1W you have to work as close to MUF as possible to get maximum results, and during the day inter-VK MUF would usually be at 20m or 17m in this season. But in the evening it will drop down, and 20m still be likely best, but 30m good if no QRM!

As to SSB on 10120, the new band plan will shift SSB further upwards to 10125-10135, according to TAC reacting on feedback and technical arguments, and also restricted to daylight hours, so after darkness when you can do DX on 30m should be no VK SSB.

Naturally that will take a while to propagate to the various SSB users however, unless someone politely comes up on SSB and explains it to them, but best wait for the new band plan to be published so it can be referred to.

Hi Peter,

10100 is not a good idea as that is right on the band edge, to avoid your signal straying out you need to be a little higher. But on 10100.8 is the Germany RTTY WX station so apart from during the day, the very bottom end is noisy as the RTTY signal is wide.

CW does take place anywhere between 10100 and 10150, though mostly between 10102 and 10130, though there are CW using above 10130 too. Here are some of the various calling frequencies or centre of activity frequencies I know of on 30m:

10100.575/10101.025 (10100.8cf 450Hz 50 Bd RTTY) DDK9 wx nr Hamburg 10kW (For information, 24 hours QRL)
10106 QRP CW
10110 DXpeditions often here
10110-30 SKCC
10114 Bcn N4QA 18mW ?
10115 VK-WICEN SSB
10115 CW IOTA
10116 QRP CW (Region 1, 2, 3 centre of QRP activity)
10117.5 HFPACK INTERNATIONAL CW PRIMARY
10118 FISTS
10118 CWops
10119 CWB ACTIVITY
10120 SKCC COA (Slow Speed CW)
10120 SSB Calling Frequency (Oc-VK, AF)
10120 FOC
10121.5 SSN SideSwiper Net Calling Frequency
10122.5 CW County Hunting Net
10125 HSC
10125 Bcn KL1IF Springfield MO EM37ie 1/4 GP Omni 10W P/Time
10123.9 WINLINK-Pactor 1&2
10129 EMCOMM CW National US nets, watch, calling, traffic
10130 OK1IF JO40hg 0.5W
10130-40 Region 2 Narrow Band Digimodes
10130-40 OLIVIA
10132 SSTV-N (MP73-N <500Hz)
10132 Bcn VE3TO Nr Ottawa FN25eg 5W 1/4 Vert Omni Mo-Fr 24h
10134 Bcn OK0EF Nr Kladno JO70bc .1/.2/.5/1/2W Vert Omni 24h
10134-40 Feld Hell
10134.5 OLIVIA
10135 UFT
10135.9 Bcn HP1RCP Cerro Jefe FJ09hd 2.5W SlopeDip Omni 24h
10136.5 HFPACK.COM USB ASIA/AFR/ANZ/PAC/SAM
10137 Feld Hell
10138 FISTS (FEA #2 for BV Taiwan only allowed 10130-10150)
10138 Feld Hell Net 0000Z to 0200Z CDT Sundays
10138.6 MEPT/W5PR (Beacons)
10139 County Hunting Net
10139 JT65 (W5JT)
10139-41 W5PR (QSO MODE-W5JT)
10139.6 Bcn PY3PSI Porto Alegre GF49kx 1.6W Horiz Dipole N-S Irregular
10140 QRP Digital Modes
10140.0 Sub-audible QRPP/QRSS3 beacons around here
10140.1 includig I1YRB, IW0HK, IK4IDP, G3ZJO, I1DFS, IQ4FJ
10140-50 Region 1 Narrow Band Modes, Digimodes
10140-50 Region 2 All Digimodes (no phone)
10140-57.3 Region 3 Narrow Band Activity (CW, RTTY, FAX, Digi-Modes)
10140-42 PSK (DX)
10140-45 DX RTTY
10140.5 PROPNET (PSK)
10140.6 Bcn DL5KZ Numbrecht JO30su 0.1W Dipole
10141 DXpedition RTTY (varies)
10141.2 WINLINK Pactor 3 (WINLINK 10140-10150?)
10141.8 Bcn IK3NWK Nr MonselicePD JN55vf 4.2W Rot.Dip. E-W 24h
10142 SSTV-N (MP73-N <500Hz)
10142-43 ALE-2kHz
10142-43 MFSK
10143 ALE400
10144 Feld Hell (Region 1)
10144 Bcn DK0WCY Scheggrott JO44vq 30W Dipole CW, PSK, RTTY, 24h
10145 ARRL SkipNet (Packet)
10145.5-10148.1 ALE2k
10147.8-48.2 PSKMail/APRS
10149.1-49.5 APRS/PACKET
10149.7 Bcn IZ8BZX Torre del Greco JN70es .1/.5/1W whip omni hi/QRSSEXP