It is possible. Conditions were there today, now it just needs luck from someone.
I had 10m QSO with VK6 this morning on 10w. I could also hear @VK3JBL calling on 10m with a decent copy on summit Vk3/VT-013, but I stupidly had put up the 20m vertical and couldn’t respond. By the time I put up the 10m vertical it was too late.
Noooo! I didn’t spend a lot of time on 10 as the band seemed a bit dead. Generally was not good all day on Sunday, except to ZL though grabbed the odd US and JA contact.
Sorry was a bit quick on the last summits of the day (5 in total, 6 if you include the campsite). The sun had set by the time I arrived at the last (VT-022) and fog/cloud had blanketed the range. I had a long drive out in fog so thick I couldn’t see the side of the road or the road at all at points and that’s a mind numbingly long drive out in good condx. I arrived home at 10pm.
Sunrise on VK3/VE-033:
Andrew VK3JBL
Time to refresh this topic, as equinox on 23rd September and the VK time change on 6th October coming nearer.
My alert is up for 12th October 0630 z 28 Mhz. Wx depending. 
Ahoi
Pom
I’m not sure how I missed this topic previously… I must have had blinkers on earlier in the year.
In the past I’ve enjoyed participating in several EU <> VK/ZL/JA S2S events with some success, all having been good fun ascending to the summit in the dark and setting up as dawn breaks. I hope something comes of this over the coming months. 
Most of the stations taking part in the challenge in March/April seemed to be equipted for 20 m, too. So they could joyfully grab the VK/EU LP s2s even when 10 m was dead.
Ahoi
Pom
DM/NS-135
IC-705, 30 W PEP SSB, Oblong 17 m agl
Decent F2 condx on 10 m today. 2 VKs in the log. No s2s, however.
Propagation to VK seemed a bit patchy. Here are the UTC times.
0718 VK4DO not completed, qsb
0747 VK2CR 59 / 57
0820 VK3OCD 55 / 44
I agree and am going to have to dust off the alarm clock for a weekend soon to try a VK/ZL S2S on 10m. conditions are getting there!
VK6s 53 SSB or so around 1200Z on 10m on Sunday.
Thanks, useful ! I heard you working VE3 on the key on Sunday ! Conditions were great. Well I heard the VE station and not you/MM, otherwise I would have worked you! It was rather hopeful
I have posted an alert for 0615 UTC, Saturday 12 October. I will stay on the summit until sunset at 0815 UTC.
Happy to try FT8 on 10m, away from the overworked 28.074, instead I will Tx on 28.084. Anyone interested in FT8?
If 10m SSB is quiet I will operate on 20m SSB.
73 Andrew VK1AD
Weather permitting I’ll try FT8 (and voice).
Hi Andrew. @VK1AD I am planning to get my sorry backside outta bed and onto a summit to try 10m to a VK summit on the 12th! Would love to try SSB.
I know a lot has happened with the Sun in the last 24hours, But I was on a summit Sunday and got a 5x5 on 10w into Indonesia and heard many VK stations. So if the sun is playing ball, game on.
I just placed an alert for the 12th, will activate my local hill OE/OO-084 using the special call OE20SOTA. Here is a webcam view of the summit:
Sunrise is at 5:30 UTC, will be QRV soon after that at about 5:40 UTC.
I wonder what time will be best to try 10m for VK/ZL?
Guess I will start on 20m and then change to 10m …
73 Martin
OE5REO
Very turbulent conditions on the sun these days … todays X-flare produced another CME that seems to head straight towards the earth. hope things settle down a bit until saturday!
73 Martin
OE5REO
I am considering a smash and grab over the border into VK2, possibly camping overnight on VK2/SW-028 on Saturday 12 Oct 24. Will be focussed on 10m (of course), but would likely put up a multiband antenna in case 10m is not playing nice.
Matt
VK1MA
Sorry, Andrew and all others. I won’t attend next weekend’s try.
In a few weeks of time, I’m gonna move houses to a place where I can can deploy proper chaser antennas. On Saturday, I will hopefully demount and collect a used 10 m Hummel tower which was offered me at a price I couldn’t resist.
I’ll put up another alert for Saturday, 19th. Maybe I’ll also be out on coming Sunday (13th) UTC morning.
Good luck to all!
Ahoi
Pom
I might join the action as the wx looks fine.
Will need to find a nice summit with good position for the take-off
VOACAP is suggesting the 12m band on LP … but let’s hope for a favorable MUF to that we can actually call it a 10m Challenge
50 Watt SSB into Vertikal GP
SP is non-existing in the EU morning hours. LP looks a bit better
73 Joe
This is what it spits out for me for IO83 to VK1 on Saturday:
Edit: Whoops, that was for 1.5kW of CW. SSB looks more like your chart.
I guess it will be a bit of a gamble for tomorrow morning. Currently hitting CME pushing the the K values up to 8+ but coming down already will be either great of a full ZERO tomorrow on 10m
Will have a look later in the evening and change my plans to a summit with good VHF take-off instread - hi.
The GFZ Hpo30 K index is now at 4 for 1500-1530. So I think that NOAA 3 day prediction may be a bit pessimistic. So 2, maybe 3 for K tomorrow and conditions may be less broken than now.
