Conditions on 28 MHz in Europe on Wednesday the 4th of December 2019 were generally very poor with very little propagation by way of Sporadic-E on the band. As can be seen from the map above, it did open to the NE of the USA.
Looking at the PSKReporter website, there did by contrast seem to be plenty of Sporadic-E in the eastern part of the USA today. Did this extend out over the North Atlantic as well?
In total, I heard four US stations and the decodes are shown below. The W1SSN and NF1G reports did not appear on the PSKReporter website.
When I checked the heard/receive maps for each of the four stations that I heard, the trans-Atlantic path seemed to be confined to just a few stations in the UK and Ireland.
The distance for me was about 5,000kms which suggests either 3 x Sp-E hops or some F2 enhancement. With the solar flux down at 71 and no sign of anything special happening on the sun today, I'd suspect the multi hops E's but you can never be really certain at 28 MHz.
143800 -12 -0.2 1327 ~ G0OYQ W1SSN -12
143830 -6 -0.2 1327 ~ G0OYQ W1SSN -12
143930 -11 -0.3 1328 ~ G0OYQ W1SSN -12
144000 -14 -0.3 1328 ~ G0OYQ W1SSN -12
144300 -12 -0.3 1328 ~ G0OYQ W1SSN -18
145700 -18 -0.2 1112 ~ KN4CNX W2MGF 73
145830 -18 -0.2 1111 ~ G4HZW W2MGF FN30
150400 -10 -0.6 973 ~ CQ WA2HMM FN30
150430 -8 -0.6 973 ~ CQ WA2HMM FN30
150500 -6 -0.6 972 ~ CQ WA2HMM FN30
150530 -12 -0.6 973 ~ CQ WA2HMM FN30
150600 -12 -0.8 1520 ~ G4HZW NF1G R-14
150630 -10 -0.8 1520 ~ G4HZW NF1G 73
1 comment:
nice work, i saw the E's in the coastal area, turned the antenna but heard nil...lol
ggod luck, keep up the great blog
stu
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