Openings on 28 MHz... 1st to 3rd April 2019

After a quiet two days on 10 metres, it finally opened to Africa on the 3rd of April.

Monday 1st April 2019... A very small Sporadic-E opening.

EA1ALE 10m FT8 992 km 15:18:45
EA7BZO 10m FT8 1682 km 14:13:45
S52EN 10m FT8 1803 km 11:37:00
G0OYQ 10m FT8 579 km 10:22:46

Tues 2nd April 2019... One of the 'dismal' days with just G0OYQ on the east coast of England heard. Probably meteor scatter.




Wednesday 3rd April 2019... In the morning, got several FT8 decodes from MM0HVU in Scotland. In the afternoon, there was a Sporadic-E opening to Spain which in turn allowed access to the F2 propagation from there to the south of Africa.

MM0HVU 10m FT8 543 km 10:00:31

ZS6BUN 10m FT8 9375 km 16:21:30
EA5UI 10m FT8 1634 km 15:24:29
EB5GC 10m FT8 1640 km 14:58:18

145800 -13  0.1 1679 ~  CQ EB5GC IM97
150130 -15  0.7  687 ~  PY1VOY ZS6BUN KG43
150215  -4  0.1 1572 ~  CQ UW5EJX/MM
152415 -19 -0.9  688 ~  CQ EA5UI IM98
155845 -10  0.1  876 ~  PU1WZY ZS2PA RRR
161200  -8 -0.1  621 ~  <...> AM70D
162115 -17  0.5  696 ~  CQ ZS6BUN KG43
182615  -5 -0.2  818 ~  CQ AM70I

The AM70I was one of the AM70 series of stations in Spain to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the URE... the national society for radio amateurs in Spain.