Modest day on 28 MHz - Fri 3rd Apr 2020

Friday 3rd April 2020. There was hardly a murmur from the radio on the FT8 frequency on 28 MHz for most of the day except for  two local stations.

However, the band came to life in the evening with an opening to Gabon in central Africa, St. Helena in the South Atlantic, the Canary Islands, Brazil and Argentina.

There was a signal from Spain around this time so perhaps a Sporadic-E hop to the south from my location helped out.

In two to three weeks time, things should improving a lot as we head into the Sporadic-E season.

Stations in order of distance...
Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
PU2OOC 10m FT8 9186 km 19:09:59
ZD7MY 10m FT8 7542 km 19:06:44
PP6EW 10m FT8 7456 km 19:27:14
PY7AHA 10m FT8 7161 km 20:31:59
TR8CA 10m FT8 5948 km 17:52:29
EA8DFQ 10m FT8 2705 km 19:32:44
LA5VSA 10m FT8 1382 km 11:25:14
EA1AF 10m FT8 1141 km 19:27:59
GM4FVM 10m FT8 604 km 11:57:59
2E1RDX 10m FT8 485 km 17:15:29
G8IXN 10m FT8 284 km 09:52:31
EI9FVB 10m FT8 14 km 16:34:30
EI5FK 10m FT8 12 km 10:40:14

These are the stations in Brazil and Argentina that were heard but didn't appear on PSKReporter...
190430 -15 -0.1 2005 ~  EA1AF PU1JSV +05
190845 -19 -0.1  681 ~  EA1MX PU1KAQ -20
202015 -17 -0.1  680 ~  EA1AT LU1YT -13
202630 -19  0.1 1177 ~  KW7E PY2WLM -17