Well today was a bit of a suprise! It started off quiet enough with just a handful of FT8 signals from around Europe on 28 MHz. It just seemed like a typical poor day until around 17:40 UTC when two signals from the USA popped out of the noise.
174345 -14 -0.8 971 ~ CQ N4TL FM05
175300 -16 -0.6 1109 ~ CQ N3GWZ FM19
Looking at the PSK reporter website, it seems as if I was the only person in Europe to hear them.
Local sunset here in Cork was at 16:47 UTC so I presume it was sunset related.
At about 19:13 to 20:25, there were a bunch of signals from Brazil in South America. There were some Sporadic-E signals in there from Spain and Portugal as well so that would have helped the signals from Brazil reach up into northern Europe.
191345 -21 -0.3 542 ~ EB8AC PY2EZL GG67
191945 -16 -0.3 547 ~ EB8AC PU2MVE GG66
192545 -2 -0.1 637 ~ 2E0XXO PU1JSV R-15
195015 -17 0.2 645 ~ CQ PY2JOS GG66
195315 -8 -0.5 709 ~ CQ G8KHF IO92
195500 -16 -0.9 1235 ~ G0OYQ EA3IEF JN12
200000 -22 -0.3 1196 ~ PY2CP PY2UG GG66
200215 -4 -0.3 821 ~ G4XYT PY2RJ RR73
201630 -11 -0.4 1890 ~ CQ CS7ANU IN51
202515 -14 -0.3 1493 ~ CQ DX PY2CP GG66
Solar Flux is at 68 so pretty much at rock bottom of the cycle.
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