Sporadic-E opening over the N of Europe on 28 MHz - Sat 13th Apr 2019

There was a reasonable Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz on Saturday the 13th of April 2019 with most of the activity centered over northern Europe. Looking at the various FT8 plots, it seemed that the centre of the Sporadic-E hot spot was over the north of Germany / South Sweden / East Denmark.

I was very much at the western fringe of this opening and some of the signals that I heard were probably coming in just above the horizon.

Some of the most eastern stations shown above are pretty close to the distance limit of about 2,300 kms for one hop Sporadic-E.

Two stations heard but not uploaded to PSK reporter were LA9AKA in Norway and EU1KY in Belarus.
121715 -17 -0.2 2221 ~  M0RTP EU1KY -04
122630 -16 -0.0  387 ~  OM8LA LA9AKA R-07

The main opening lasted roughly from 11:00 to 14:00 UTC. None of the signals were really all that strong and despite hearing at least 51 stations, I heard nothing other than FT8 signals on the band.

It looks as if some stations in the UK heard South America in the evening time but there was nothing here.

These are some of the stations heard on the 13th of April and those over 2,000 kms are in Bold.



PD1DL 10m FT8 921 km 20:03:07
OE6VHF 10m FT8 1780 km 19:26:14
PH0TV 10m FT8 996 km 14:43:59
PD1HPB 10m FT8 945 km 14:43:19
PD7WL 10m FT8 914 km 14:43:17
DL3TN 10m FT8 1057 km 14:09:29
ON2TRK 10m FT8 943 km 13:59:59
LY1R 10m FT8 2119 km 13:49:44
DJ5JD 10m FT8 1070 km 13:45:29
DK7BY 10m FT8 1086 km 13:44:59
PA3GAN 10m FT8 862 km 13:41:59
DL1BKX 10m FT8 1203 km 13:36:44
PA1PA 10m FT8 878 km 13:35:29
PA3AGN 10m FT8 927 km 13:35:29
OZ3AT 10m FT8 1395 km 13:16:44
DF6WE 10m FT8 1025 km 13:13:30
EI4GZB 10m FT8 210 km 13:00:44
SQ7CL 10m FT8 1994 km 12:53:59
SP5NON 10m FT8 1896 km 12:15:59
OH3QL 10m FT8 2232 km 12:15:29
SA5K 10m FT8 1636 km 12:13:59
G0NGL 10m FT8 424 km 12:13:14
M0RTP 10m FT8 530 km 12:13:14
OH3BOL 10m FT8 2179 km 12:11:44
SM0ECF 10m FT8 1819 km 12:10:29
SP4NDM 10m FT8 1974 km 12:09:59
OH1CT 10m FT8 2221 km 12:04:29
SQ5DM 10m FT8 1997 km 12:03:14
YL2GTS 10m FT8 2086 km 12:01:59
OH2VMP 10m FT8 2225 km 11:57:44
SQ5OVG 10m FT8 1999 km 11:53:59
LY2CG 10m FT8 2237 km 11:52:14
SQ8AQO 10m FT8 2088 km 11:45:29
PA3HIJ 10m FT8 888 km 11:42:44
DC6DB 10m FT8 1083 km 11:41:44
SP2WMU 10m FT8 1789 km 11:36:44
SP7FFY 10m FT8 2048 km 11:36:44
YL2CA 10m FT8 2025 km 11:35:44
SP2FOV 10m FT8 1811 km 11:32:59
PA3DJY 10m FT8 927 km 11:29:59
LY5TD 10m FT8 2248 km 11:28:14
SQ8W 10m FT8 2125 km 11:26:44
SP4WSG 10m FT8 1925 km 11:23:14
DD5ZZ 10m FT8 1185 km 11:16:29
SQ9GIW 10m FT8 1946 km 11:10:59
SP6CIK 10m FT8 1821 km 11:06:29
SP9MRP 10m FT8 1891 km 11:04:29
SP5OXM 10m FT8 1992 km 10:55:14
PA7EY 10m FT8 899 km 10:37:59
2I0KXY 10m FT8 308 km 09:53:14
S52EN 10m FT8 1803 km 09:18:46