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[KC2QYM]

Huh...The best bacon I've had was in South Carolina...oh...you meant what beacon you can hear in OK...How can anyone advise you on this question?

[WB6BYU]

What is the best beacon on 10 meter band that I can hear in Oklahoma on a regular basis? I have found some but they are not reliable and go down a lot.

Well, that's sort of the point of having beacons.

Propagation is variable, and you never know where the band might be open to.  With the beacons
running 24 hours/day, you can scan the beacon segment of the band and see where the path
is open.  Given the current conditions, most of the time the band isn't open to most places, which
is why you don't hear them.

Any beacon that you can hear on a regular basis probably isn't likely to tell you a lot about current
propagation conditions.

[ND6M]

...  Too bad we can't trade in all that useless spectrum on 12, 10, and 6 meters for expanded spectrum on the lower bands...

Well, you could always do something stupid,..... like upgrading

[ONAIR]

Upper band propagation for me is just so scant that I don't even tune to 10 or 12 meters anymore;  I think my limit is 15 meters to derive any half way decent contacts.  In my opinion, I wasn't missing anything even when 10 meters was open a few years ago.  Throw in a disappointing sunspot cycle and now on the decline and all that 10 meters appears to offer Hams are hope and a prayer.  All the ARRL promises were just hype concerning upper band propagation a few years ago.  And then poof, it became apparent that the propagation was going to be disappointing.  Too bad we can't trade in all that useless spectrum on 12, 10, and 6 meters for expanded spectrum on the lower bands.  And while we're at it throw back the lower 100 Khz portion of 160 meters for more space in the 40 meter band. Yeah, I know that this is just wishful fantasy thinking on my part but I don't have the patience to catch some odd fifteen minutes of an unusually great opening on 10 meters and listen to empty noise the rest of the time.

   Just hook up a CB radio in your shack with a decent antenna, and keep it on whenever you are operating!  When 11 meters opens up and those CB DX stations break the squelch, chances are that 10 or 12 meters will be open as well!!