Some fun on 10M today

Today I put my 10M W5OLF WSPR beacon on and started to notice some distances with just the endfed wire when I checked the map earlier in the day.

500mW

 

So I decided to shut the WSPR transmitter down and switch on my IC-703 to see what I could work. Most of my activity was on CW and one SSB QSO. It was nice to have had 5 CW QSO's with stations from the States all with my 10watts. 

One of the stations from the States was K3Y/3 (Straight Key Century Club) 17th annual Straight Key Month event operators during January. 

 

I'm thinking of a dedicated antenna for 10M like 2 element beam or maybe rebuild another halo ??