Saturday, April 18, 2020

Opening to Sierra Leone & St Helena on 28 MHz - Fri 17th April 2020

Friday 17th April 2020. Another pretty quiet day on 28 MHz and typical for April.

There was a modest Sporadic-E opening to Portugal and the west of Spain when the FT8 signals were actually well above the noise level. The footprint however seemed pretty narrow and I was unable to hear any beacons or cw/ssb signals on the band.

It opened to Brazil again with ZD7JC from St Helena and 9L1YXJ from Sierra Leone making an appearance as well.

These are the FT8 signals over 2,000kms in order of distance....

Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
PP5JR 10m FT8 9663 km 18:37:29
PY2OAL 10m FT8 9249 km 17:06:44
PY2RPM 10m FT8 9229 km 15:02:29
PU2LAV 10m FT8 9175 km 17:21:59
PU2XMY 10m FT8 9156 km 18:46:44
PY2EBD 10m FT8 9084 km 15:56:29
ZD7JC 10m FT8 7542 km 18:48:14
PY7VI 10m FT8 7121 km 20:26:45
9L1YXJ 10m FT8 4847 km 16:53:59
EA8AUW 10m FT8 2705 km 18:02:14

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