I forgot about VOACAP. VOACAP seems to say (my interpretation anyway) that 15, 12 and 10m should be the bands that work.
Might leave the 20m vertical at home then.
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Not too long ago I worked 2 US stations on 10m SSB with my FT-817 into a dipole at about 5m up from G/NP-004. I was demonstrating SSB contacts to my son. Iâm not an SSB op so my mic settings etc arenât optimised. Iâm fairly confident youâll have sucess, even with QRP. With an IC7300, it should be pretty easy to work transatlantic.
73, GL
Colin
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Iâll be concentrating on those bands. Today at 1315 UTC from G/LD-052 I worked @WB2FUV on W2/GC-122 on 10m CW and Iâve managed a few other US S2S on 10m and 15m recently. Later in the afternoon it should be good.
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During the last few weeks there have been good condx for DX - S2S ⌠so why not on Saturday 
73 Armin
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Although I am not a big fan of 10m, I did manage a QSO with Jim K7MK located in New Hampshire last week from home. I was just using my IC-703 (10 watts) to my 40m dipole at 5m. Hardly a DX antenna.
I am pleased to see that 15m is expected to be good as I am a big fan of that band. So why the preference for 15m? Well it is purely historical, based on my experience with radio over 50 years ago. The first contacts you make on a band can influence how you feel about it thereafter⌠working CE on 15m from the school radio shack certainly was great fun, as indeed was working VK6 on 30m when the band was released to us years later⌠another one of my favourite bands.
I guess there wonât be much of my Slidewinder coil in circuit on Saturday.
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I noticed that you had alerted for my summit today. 
Hutton Roof Crags is my summit for tests as itâs about 25mins away by car and my easiest to get to small summit.
Whernside G/NP-004 is probably my quickest door to summit hill but mentally it feels different!
I wasnât organised enough to rig up a 10m station to give you a call this morning.
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I spent a lot of time listening to 80m and 75m when I first discovered amateur radio back in 1996. Iâve always been fond of 80m, although I donât operate there often. I canât listen to 80m at home anymore due to a very high noise level.
I passed my CW test in 1999 but couldnât afford a HF rig. I was loaned an Icom 735 by a radio club member and I spent many an hour on 17m making QSOs with my shiny new M0 call sign. I even tried a couple of CW contacts, although it wasnât until Kjell LA1KHA proposed the PP3 SOTA challenge that I attempted CW seriously. Up until the LA1KHA Challenge, Iâd literally had about 5 CW QSOs. I do still enjoy operating on 17m.
Iâm quite fond of 20m, my first experiences of that band were at school when I was simply blown away by the fact that my teacher had a QSO with an Italian station using an MFJ9420 QRP SSB rig. I didnât know that contacts out of the country were even possible! I have more 20m radios than for any other band.
Really looking forward to the TA event, last yearâs was brilliant, I think this yearâs is going to be even better.
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I checked my RBN spots for today and noticed how many more there were on 10m than last week including Costa Rica so I think Saturday should be good.
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Colin, our contact of the 24th was made from my mobile station. You were not only making it over the pond, you were loud enough to be heard over the utility lines and other RFI sources in town!
10 m is absolutely where itâs at for Trans-Atlantic right now. My chaser log (and my activator log from last Saturday) is bursting with daily EU contacts on the band.
Accordingly, I expect to spend 95% of my time on 10 m while on summit on the 2nd, though I will be equipped for all bands 20 m through 12 m as well.
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10m was OK this evening (1800z) from North Wales to eastern USA with several strong stations, including W4V/SH-002 although he was a difficult copy.
Nothing heard on 10m FM though, but maybe thatâs only a weekend mode.
Nice sunset too:
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Richard,
Thank you for our trans-Atlantic s2s on Thursday morning. I worked five (5) European summits today starting with DF3MC/p at 1310Z on 10M.
With respect to band conditions, I think 10M was best for trans-Atlantic DX today. My 10M SOTA activation began at 1257Z with an RST 559 report from home station SM4CJM. Later at 1428Z I got an RST 549 report from HB9BQU/p during our s2s. I stayed on 10M until 1527Z with some good 559/579 reports from EU home stations. At about that time I began to hear reports of some flutter interference. I returned to 10M at 1712Z and got some good reports from DX chaser stations but by then the EU summits were done.
Today I was on a local hill, Shaupeneake Ridge (W2/GC-122) on the westerly side of the Hudson River with an elevation of only 270M but good prominence eastward. Rig today was FT-818ND at 5 watts to a 40M EFHW inverted vee up 25 feet with legs N-S.
Yesterdayâs M 7.24 flare from AR3878 reportedly did NOT produce a CME. This evening (just now) there was a X1.9 flare so conditions should be good especially on 10M for the Saturday s2s Event.
Stay well & 73!
Mike, WB2FUV
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Hi Gerald, wishing all the activators an amazing, fun-filled S2S day tomorrow.
Adele ZS5APT & I will be activating ZS/KN-161, Jurie ZS5ZG & Martin ZS5MRB (his first SOTA activation) will be activating ZS/KN-204 tomorrow, hoping to make contact with a few DX S2S stations and any other DX chasers.
Hopefully conditions will be favorable, beween Europe, the States and Africa.
Stay safe on the summits, and have an amazing day.
73
Sid
ZS5AYC
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The chance of rain is going down here in San Jose, California, so Iâll go up to a summit (W6/NC-191) at dawn tomorrow. Iâll have a KX3 and 40W amplifier to a dipole.
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Great to have you guys on board Sid. Hopefully conditions will be good between ZS and the other areas represented.
73, Gerald
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SFI currently 256, K=2, A=4
3D2, VU, CX, XT2, 5R8, VK9 all worked on 10m in Europe in the last 30mins.
Today could be fun
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Heading for MN-147 today and the EU/NA s2s Event from ArizonaâŚ
Heavily focused today on 10M CW/SSB if openâŚif ten not open then 15/20M ssb/cw.
Listen for the weak ones!!!
73
Pete
WA7JTM
W7A
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Waouhhh a pity was not on the summit 
A good afternoon here on the shack with 100w and wire antennas specially on 10m
73, Eric
F5JKK
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10m seemed a bit meh this afternoon.
6m howeverâŚ
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Youâre joking right? 10m was on fire!
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Used the QMX 14-28 MHz version for the first time, the antenna was the 10.90 m inv-L.
Unfortunately the cold fog hit me much earlier than I had hoped, I would have liked to have stayed a little longer.
Although my QMX only delivers 3.5 watts on 12 and 10 m, I enjoyed the little black box.
37 QSOs in 2 h
9 s2s (SV, EA1, EA2, W1, DM, VE2, CT, W4V, HB9)
ODX 12 m: ~9586 km JS6RRR
ODX 10 m: ~9253 km PY1NP
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