Tuesday, February 19, 2019

FT8 signals heard on 144 MHz... 18th & 19th Feb 2019

I got a good dose of reality over the last two days listening for FT8 signals on 144 MHz! i.e. If the band is flat then I'm not going to hear much.

These were the only signals heard on the 18th of February...

114500 -12  0.1  734 ~  CQ M1MLM IO83
133015 -21 -0.2 1227 ~  CQ G1IVL IO82
134945 -18 -0.1 1799 ~  M6NVE G0OMF 73
204500 -16 -0.1 1438 ~  CQ G7RHF IO82


The 19th of February was much the same...

135715 -14 -0.2 1233 ~  CQ G1IVL IO82
154815 -17 -0.2 1792 ~  CQ G0OMF IO83
155615 -20  0.2 1338 ~  CQ G8IXN IO70
194815 -15 -0.1  748 ~  DL5KCD G4RRA -18


It would seem that the number of stations on the band is highly dependent on whether there are good conditions or not.
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2 comments:

on4fra said...

I can hear stations from Germany and the uk on a daily base, with distances varying from 200 till even somethimes 500 Km far. Who knows is the south coast from EI also possible.
73, de on4fra

February 20, 2019 at 7:52 AM
John, EI7GL said...

Thanks for the comment Frank. I think the distance for the signals I heard is about 350-400 kms. Not too many closer.

I would expect that if I was using a proper outdoor beam, 500kms plus would be reasonably easy.

February 20, 2019 at 2:32 PM

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