Opening to Indonesia & Falkland Islands on 28 MHz - Tues 14th April 2020

Tuesday 14th April 2020. Despite what the map above would suggest, it was only a modest day on 28 MHz with most of the signals heard being pretty weak. Despite this, YB0BOB from Indonesia and
VP8LP from the Falkland Islands did make it through.

A total of 236 stations from 31 countries were heard on FT8 and the majority were of course from Europe...

The one notable feature on the map is the cluster of stations in Russia and Ukraine. This indicates the likely presence of double hop Sporadic-E which is the first major multi-hop opening of the new season.

Beacons... Despite all of the FT8 stations, just four beacons were heard which ties in with the modest conditions...

EI7GL 28205.0 DL0IGI/B 17:47 14 Apr IO51TUJN57MT Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28251.4 ED4YAK/B 15:33 14 Apr IO51TUIN80FK Spain
EI7GL 28245.2 DB0TEN/B 13:05 14 Apr IO51TUJO42UV Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28279.0 DB0UM/B 13:02 14 Apr IO51TUJO73CE Fed. Rep. of Germany

As we heard into the second half of April, we should start seeing more openings on 28 MHz and above.

FT8 stations heard that were over 2,000kms...



Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
YB2BOB 10m FT8 12602 km 13:31:14
VP8LP 10m FT8 12411 km 17:10:29
ZS1CDG 10m FT8 9884 km 15:45:29
PU2XMY 10m FT8 9156 km 15:37:59
PY2TOW 10m FT8 9152 km 16:08:59
PU1JSV 10m FT8 8972 km 15:55:29
PU2GTA 10m FT8 8594 km 17:26:44
A45XR 10m FT8 6428 km 11:22:59
TR8CA 10m FT8 5948 km 14:05:14
4Z5KU 10m FT8 4170 km 15:37:29
4X1GA 10m FT8 4110 km 15:50:14
R7DA 10m FT8 3505 km 13:59:29
RQ6M 10m FT8 3440 km 13:13:59
RU6MO 10m FT8 3429 km 13:19:44
R7BI 10m FT8 3414 km 13:16:44
RU7L 10m FT8 3370 km 12:51:44
UR5MIJ 10m FT8 3345 km 13:20:44
UT6IO 10m FT8 3335 km 12:51:29
US5IQI 10m FT8 3221 km 13:27:14
UR7IZ 10m FT8 3220 km 12:47:29
R3KF 10m FT8 3204 km 13:42:44
UY0IO 10m FT8 3199 km 12:52:29
UX7QV 10m FT8 3199 km 13:40:44
R2WN 10m FT8 3140 km 13:46:14
UA3D 10m FT8 3082 km 12:22:29
UR5LCZ 10m FT8 3078 km 12:43:59
UW5EKX 10m FT8 3066 km 14:07:59
R5AV 10m FT8 3066 km 12:01:29
R3AT 10m FT8 2991 km 12:11:29
UT1EF 10m FT8 2987 km 13:48:14
R2EA 10m FT8 2966 km 13:19:14
UY5TG 10m FT8 2928 km 13:46:59
UR5VPR 10m FT8 2922 km 13:14:44
ER5DX 10m FT8 2756 km 11:49:44
UT5CO 10m FT8 2730 km 12:51:29
US5NFC 10m FT8 2676 km 13:37:59
UT7NI 10m FT8 2577 km 14:04:59
YO8BBU 10m FT8 2507 km 13:49:29
UR5BIJ 10m FT8 2344 km 14:10:29
UR5WCA 10m FT8 2269 km 13:44:14
LY1CZ 10m FT8 2148 km 12:26:59
SQ8AQO 10m FT8 2088 km 13:31:44
OM7JG 10m FT8 2005 km 16:26:14