Minor opening on 28 MHz - Sun 29th March 2020

Sunday 29th March 2020. This was one of those days where the FT8 frequency on 28 MHz seemed pretty quiet with just low level signals heard on the band.

The signal levels were so low that I didn't even bother scanning for beacons. I was actually suprised that there was some nice DX buried in those weak signals.

As the map shows, there was a low level Sporadic-E opening to the south of Spain and this no doubt coupled into some F2 propagation to Canary Islands, St.Helena Island and Brazil.

These are the 37 stations heard in order of distance...
Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
PY2WD 10m FT8 9183 km 18:09:29
PY2BL 10m FT8 9120 km 18:05:29
PU2VLW 10m FT8 9099 km 18:07:29
PY2EBD 10m FT8 9084 km 18:09:44
PU2PPP 10m FT8 9073 km 18:08:59
PY2RSA 10m FT8 9073 km 15:19:15
PY2TMV 10m FT8 9037 km 18:09:44
PU1KAQ 10m FT8 8928 km 15:10:14
ZD7JC 10m FT8 7542 km 17:37:44
EA8EE 10m FT8 2733 km 19:08:29
EA8VJ 10m FT8 2724 km 18:26:29
EA8A 10m FT8 2718 km 17:59:44
EA8AFB 10m FT8 2718 km 17:48:14
EA8DFQ 10m FT8 2705 km 19:32:59
EA8FB 10m FT8 2698 km 17:43:29
EA8DIB 10m FT8 2685 km 17:56:44
IT9FSH 10m FT8 2472 km 15:14:44
IT9AAI 10m FT8 2265 km 15:43:59
EA9BO 10m FT8 1791 km 18:04:44
EA7FKY 10m FT8 1741 km 15:50:47
S50XX 10m FT8 1737 km 15:11:44
EB7KA 10m FT8 1733 km 15:31:59
EA7PY 10m FT8 1723 km 17:44:14
EA7Y 10m FT8 1723 km 17:23:29
EA7UW 10m FT8 1714 km 17:57:44
EA7TR 10m FT8 1709 km 17:59:29
EB7HEM 10m FT8 1709 km 17:34:44
EA7KJE 10m FT8 1704 km 18:10:29
EA7KIY 10m FT8 1703 km 17:38:59
EC7KW 10m FT8 1667 km 17:49:59
EA5AD 10m FT8 1650 km 15:22:29
CT2GQN 10m FT8 1632 km 18:22:59
EA7BUU 10m FT8 1618 km 17:56:29
EA7KHU 10m FT8 1617 km 17:46:29
EA7YB 10m FT8 1616 km 18:04:29
EA4CUO 10m FT8 1499 km 15:36:44
EA4YR 10m FT8 1444 km 17:38:29
EA1AF 10m FT8 1141 km 18:36:59
DL4CQ 10m FT8 1028 km 17:43:29