Thursday, January 24, 2019

Opening on 28 MHz... 24th Jan 2019

After two dismal days on the 22nd and 23rd of January, the 10 metre band finally opened up on Thurs 24th of January.


As can be seen from the plots above, I heard F2 signals from the south of Italy, Greece and Israel.

Further afield, I heard 3B8CW in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. According to the PSK Reporter website, he was only heard by five stations in Europe... three in France, one in England and myself. I suspect perhaps that might be because of a lack of stations on the band even in Europe.

The solar flux was 72 so not great change.

A closer look at what I heard in Europe is shown below...


The reception reports for the two previous days are shown below...



Wednesday the 23rd of January was very poor with only two stations heard. G8IXN was possibly direct or via aircraft scatter. The PA station was either Sporadic-E or meteor scatter.


Tuesday the 22nd of January was a bit better but not by much.


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