Small opening on 28 MHz on Sat 27th Apr 2019

Saturday the 27th of April was a day when the 28 MHz band barely opened. It's easy to look at the map below and think it was a reasonable day but the vast majority of those signals were buried in the noise.

Looking at the PSKReporter website, the main Sporadic-E opening was over northern Europe centered on a region over the north of Germany and the south of Sweden. I could hear lots of weak signals and it certainly felt like I was on the edge of the opening.

In the afternoon, the only loud signals were from Iceland which were there for a few hours.

In the evening, the band opened to South America but the signals were really weak.

I listened several times during the day for beacons or other signals on the band but heard nothing.

These are the FT8 signals heard on 28 MHz...




Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
LU1MPK 10m FT8 11105 km 19:53:44
PY2PRB 10m FT8 9042 km 19:09:33
ZP5DVD 10m FT8 9819 km 17:54:46
EI7HDB 10m FT8 152 km 17:12:15
PU2NTA 10m FT8 9308 km 16:05:59
TF1A 10m FT8 1570 km 15:48:59
G0FWX 10m FT8 435 km 15:31:59
TF3JB 10m FT8 1570 km 15:17:14
TF3AWS 10m FT8 1567 km 15:10:59
G8UBJ 10m FT8 559 km 13:58:00
PD1DL 10m FT8 921 km 13:57:44
PD7RF 10m FT8 916 km 13:46:59
ON8DM 10m FT8 786 km 13:46:59
CT1ILT 10m FT8 1224 km 13:43:29
EA7FDW 10m FT8 1709 km 13:27:14
DG3NCZ 10m FT8 1335 km 12:56:34
PD1BHZ 10m FT8 961 km 12:32:34
PA7EY 10m FT8 899 km 12:05:15
DJ5JD 10m FT8 1070 km 12:04:29
OH1TM 10m FT8 2100 km 11:57:44
PA3DJY 10m FT8 927 km 11:57:14
LB8IG 10m FT8 1189 km 11:56:59
EA7DZ 10m FT8 1633 km 11:46:14
EB2FJN 10m FT8 1055 km 11:42:14
M0WHC 10m FT8 407 km 11:41:59
YL2GJX 10m FT8 2160 km 11:35:59
SA0BFG 10m FT8 1822 km 11:35:44
OK1NI 10m FT8 1638 km 11:31:14
ES2DR 10m FT8 2269 km 11:31:14
ES1ALV 10m FT8 2202 km 11:31:14
ES4RLH 10m FT8 2356 km 11:27:14
G0OYQ 10m FT8 579 km 11:24:44
GM4FDM 10m FT8 510 km 11:21:44
SP6M 10m FT8 1773 km 11:19:15
M6XDN 10m FT8 494 km 11:19:14
DL3YCX 10m FT8 1071 km 11:15:59
PD7WL 10m FT8 914 km 11:15:14
YL2QV 10m FT8 2262 km 11:13:14
DF9BU 10m FT8 1091 km 11:08:59
EA6XQ 10m FT8 1646 km 10:59:44
SP2QCW 10m FT8 1836 km 10:50:59
G3PSM 10m FT8 531 km 10:47:00
2E0RUS 10m FT8 553 km 10:45:29
G0CKP 10m FT8 602 km 10:45:00
HB9BNQ 10m FT8 1253 km 10:39:44
G4EKJ 10m FT8 515 km 10:38:29
PA2TA 10m FT8 897 km 10:38:29
LY2HM 10m FT8 2036 km 10:37:44
ON4STA 10m FT8 929 km 10:19:29
F2YT 10m FT8 776 km 10:17:44
2E0SYI 10m FT8 508 km 10:12:29
G7BXU 10m FT8 512 km 10:12:29
YL2GTS 10m FT8 2086 km 10:08:14
LY3BJC 10m FT8 2154 km 10:06:45
DH8BAO 10m FT8 1179 km 10:01:14
PD1GE 10m FT8 961 km 09:59:29
PD0ME 10m FT8 1038 km 09:59:29
PA7ZZ 10m FT8 978 km 09:59:14
PD1RP 10m FT8 908 km 09:58:45
DL1BEC 10m FT8 1084 km 09:58:44
G4DBW 10m FT8 657 km 09:47:44
OZ3BEN 10m FT8 1367 km 09:18:14
DO4OW 10m FT8 1288 km 09:11:44