It was one of those days where you could hear really weak signals buried in the noise and you wouldn't take much notice. You could then look at the screen after an hour and discover you had decoded a bunch of FT8 signals.
It was almost as if the band was just about open but not quite. I did a scan of the beacon band at one stage and heard ED4YAK/B near Madrid but it disappeared as soon as I heard it. That's the kind of day it was.
I could see that some of the stations in the UK managed to hear Brazil but there was nothing here.
I did a scan of the lower bands as well and 24 MHz, 21 MHz and 18 MHz all sounded pretty quiet. It's amazing hearing nothing on 18 MHz and then going just 4 MHz lower to 14 MHz and hearing Russian contest stations at 599+.
According to the PSK Reporter website, I uploaded 92 reports from 68 stations in 25 countries.
These are the FT8 signals heard on FT8 on Saturday the 4th of May 2019...
All single hop Sporadic-E. 2000km plus in bold.
F8FHI 10m FT8 1100 km 19:11:59
EA7DGC 10m FT8 1643 km 18:38:14
CU2AP 10m FT8 2060 km 18:13:44
EA7ZY 10m FT8 1627 km 18:01:29
EA3HKB 10m FT8 1408 km 17:53:29
EA3GCV 10m FT8 1410 km 17:47:59
F8FKI 10m FT8 1090 km 17:41:44
EA3HRU 10m FT8 1398 km 17:37:59
CS7AFM 10m FT8 1478 km 17:19:14
CS7AKZ 10m FT8 1437 km 17:11:14
CT1EGW 10m FT8 1459 km 17:09:14
7X2TT 10m FT8 1902 km 17:06:44
EA1YV 10m FT8 1084 km 17:02:44
EA7GXD 10m FT8 1727 km 16:51:44
EA4LG 10m FT8 1329 km 16:29:44
EB5FVZ 10m FT8 1591 km 16:22:44
EA5IG 10m FT8 1461 km 16:21:59
EB5GC 10m FT8 1640 km 16:18:14
SM6MUY 10m FT8 1445 km 16:14:44
EA5CMW 10m FT8 1486 km 16:08:59
E73S 10m FT8 2240 km 16:08:29
EB5JSX 10m FT8 1489 km 16:07:59
IK4LDZ 10m FT8 1786 km 16:07:29
HA5SPA 10m FT8 2032 km 16:06:59
YU4SZZ 10m FT8 2255 km 16:05:29
IZ4JMA 10m FT8 1628 km 16:04:29
S51SL 10m FT8 1793 km 16:03:44
I4WQH 10m FT8 1662 km 16:03:14
EC6DX 10m FT8 1647 km 16:03:14
9A1AR 10m FT8 1818 km 16:02:59
OE3KLU 10m FT8 1812 km 16:02:14
HG5ACZ 10m FT8 1889 km 16:00:14
HA1TNX 10m FT8 1906 km 15:58:29
EI8GS 10m FT8 7 km 15:47:44
EA7DZ 10m FT8 1633 km 15:46:14
HA5OW 10m FT8 2041 km 15:44:44
EA4WD 10m FT8 1447 km 15:44:29
EA6AAB 10m FT8 1607 km 15:44:14
EA1HTF 10m FT8 1024 km 15:43:14
CT1FAW 10m FT8 1463 km 15:39:29
HA5BP 10m FT8 2015 km 15:39:15
EA4WP 10m FT8 1334 km 15:36:59
S51DI 10m FT8 1823 km 15:35:56
EA7CL 10m FT8 1710 km 15:29:14
EA1AJV 10m FT8 1070 km 15:23:59
HA8TI 10m FT8 2083 km 15:22:14
CN8AM 10m FT8 2023 km 15:18:14
OE3OSA 10m FT8 1802 km 15:10:59
DO4MAS 10m FT8 1376 km 14:59:14
SP9MQU 10m FT8 1909 km 14:58:14
HA5AQ 10m FT8 2152 km 14:57:44
EA1MX 10m FT8 991 km 14:53:14
DL2KV 10m FT8 1156 km 14:06:15
DH5YAX 10m FT8 1153 km 13:44:44
PD1DL 10m FT8 921 km 13:22:44
EI4GZB 10m FT8 210 km 13:13:15
OH6MRD 10m FT8 2171 km 13:04:14
DL1REM 10m FT8 1071 km 13:03:59
G8UBJ 10m FT8 559 km 12:51:59
YL2GJX 10m FT8 2160 km 12:34:14
RA2FL 10m FT8 1920 km 12:30:44
PA2RUS 10m FT8 873 km 11:36:29
M0CFV 10m FT8 555 km 10:54:15
F2YT 10m FT8 776 km 09:52:29
OZ7FOC 10m FT8 1318 km 09:42:59
G0OYQ 10m FT8 579 km 09:41:32
GW3ATZ 10m FT8 389 km 09:03:14
2 comments:
John, did give a few CQs your way this morning. Just to see if you could spot me. But it didn't happen. Better luck another time. 73, Bas
Hi Bas
I think many of the PA signals I hear on the quiet days are probably via meteor scatter. I hear PD1DL quite often and I see lots of bursts and pings on the waterfall display during the mornings.
The distance is about 1000kms so there should be plenty of short skip Sp-E openings as we move into May.
I find it useful to use PSK Reporter website and put the report settings to 'Anyone' and '15 mins'. You can then see who is on, who is listening and what the paths are.
73'de John, EI7GL
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