Opening on 28 MHz - Mon 30th March 2020

Monday 30th March 2020. I had the radio on in the background all day and it seem pretty quiet with only a few FT8 signals on 28 MHz audible. It was a suprise at the end of the day when the PSKReporter map showed that I had heard FT8 signals from South Africa, Chile and Europe.

It certainly wasn't an extensive opening and the map above really shows an accumulation of stations heard during the day gradually building up to populate the map.

At one stage when the FT8 signals were about S3 which seemed to be the strongest, I had a listen on the beacon part of the band and heard the German DL0IGI/B and DK0TEN/B beacons.

A total of 43 stations were heard. This is a list of the stations heard in order of distance...



Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
CE2SV 10m FT8 11252 km 20:25:45
ZS1DX 10m FT8 9913 km 15:03:59
ZS1XG 10m FT8 9900 km 14:44:59
ZS1CDG 10m FT8 9884 km 14:56:44
HA5KN 10m FT8 2032 km 11:35:14
SQ7FPH 10m FT8 1994 km 11:43:29
9A6ZE 10m FT8 1875 km 12:28:30
OK2DW 10m FT8 1875 km 11:39:14
OE6MDF 10m FT8 1818 km 12:48:59
OE6GBG 10m FT8 1816 km 12:58:59
OE3OOG 10m FT8 1809 km 11:44:44
S53EOP 10m FT8 1791 km 12:09:59
OE5RI 10m FT8 1679 km 12:54:14
EA7ST 10m FT8 1671 km 20:45:14
EA5AD 10m FT8 1650 km 18:32:14
EA5IEA 10m FT8 1649 km 20:02:44
EC5W 10m FT8 1626 km 18:08:44
EA7JXZ 10m FT8 1618 km 20:02:44
EA5CRC 10m FT8 1614 km 17:58:59
EB5AG 10m FT8 1608 km 18:09:14
OK8LEO 10m FT8 1594 km 12:04:44
OK1IVE 10m FT8 1575 km 11:35:44
OK6DJ 10m FT8 1528 km 12:58:44
EA5YT 10m FT8 1507 km 18:59:15
DO2WAL 10m FT8 1469 km 11:43:44
IZ2MHO 10m FT8 1465 km 11:21:30
DL6EV 10m FT8 1460 km 15:48:14
SM6MLY 10m FT8 1452 km 11:35:14
EA3SP 10m FT8 1409 km 19:34:47
EA3HTD 10m FT8 1393 km 18:15:44
OE9KFV 10m FT8 1386 km 12:44:44
DO3XX 10m FT8 1330 km 12:16:59
DK7HN 10m FT8 1294 km 13:18:14
DG2SAT 10m FT8 1277 km 13:10:14
F5RRS 10m FT8 1251 km 15:51:44
DK2NO 10m FT8 1243 km 11:50:14
DO9SO 10m FT8 1229 km 12:51:14
DL6FCB 10m FT8 1221 km 14:25:44
DL1DKS 10m FT8 1217 km 14:31:14
DL2FAG 10m FT8 1182 km 14:25:14
DB3ZY 10m FT8 1175 km 12:10:59
DF5SF 10m FT8 1166 km 12:53:59
DD4WO 10m FT8 1112 km 14:56:44
EA1PO 10m FT8 1033 km 19:48:59
DL4CQ 10m FT8 1028 km 17:14:04
G1WFJ 10m FT8 432 km 14:47:29
GW7KNF 10m FT8 305 km 09:30:38
MW0ZZK 10m FT8 283 km 14:13:59
EI4CKB 10m FT8 119 km 11:37:29