Opening to Thailand on 28 MHz - Mon 13th Apr 2020

Monday 13th April 2020. The big suprise on 28 MHz was the reception of HS5YLK in Thailand in SE Asia at the distance of 9,460 kms. This coincided with a reasonable Sporadic-E opening in Europe which was further to the north than usual.

This is a map showing the stations in Europe that heard HS5YLK...

Its interesting to see a small footprint across the south of the UK and Ireland and yet, there were no reports from the Netherlands and just one in Germany. There are large numbers of active stations there on FT8 but it looks as if they were in the skip zone for this particular hop.

In Europe, there were reasonable signals to the north of Italy, the north of Germany, Denmark and the south of Sweden.

Beacons... There were the beacons heard...
EI7GL 28298.0 SK7GH/B 14:57 13 Apr IO51TUJO77BF Sweden
EI7GL 28292.2 SK0CT/B 14:56 13 Apr IO51TUJO89XK Sweden
EI7GL 28271.0 OZ7IGY/B 14:53 13 Apr IO51TUJO55WM Denmark
EI7GL 28245.2 DB0TEN/B 13:40 13 Apr IO51TUJO42UV Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28278.1 DB0UM/B 13:37 13 Apr IO51TUJO73CE Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28276.7 DM0AAB/B 13:36 13 Apr IO51TUJO54GH Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28173.1 IZ1EPM/B 12:52 13 Apr IO51TUJN35WD Italy
EI7GL 28188.0 OE3XAC/B 12:49 13 Apr IO51TUJN78SB Austria
EI7GL 28321.7 I3GNQ/B 12:11 13 Apr IO51TUJN55VJ Italy
EI7GL 28227.2 IW3FZQ/B 12:04 13 Apr IO51TU<>JN55VF Italy

This was the first time I heard the Danish and Swedish beacons this year. There was no sign of the beacons from the south of Germany this time.

These are the FT8 station heard in excess of 2000kms...



Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
HS5YLK 10m FT8 9460 km 13:26:15
PY7XC 10m FT8 7169 km 18:15:08
A45XR 10m FT8 6428 km 15:43:59
HZ1SK 10m FT8 5273 km 16:58:29
OD5OJ 10m FT8 4009 km 08:29:14
UA4HAD 10m FT8 3889 km 11:55:45
R4HEP 10m FT8 3889 km 11:45:59
UA4HBJ 10m FT8 3838 km 11:59:00
RA4FEA 10m FT8 3632 km 11:49:15
TA2FE 10m FT8 3098 km 14:33:01
YO4FJP 10m FT8 2861 km 15:59:45
IK8WEI 10m FT8 2389 km 13:05:44
IZ7QFN 10m FT8 2193 km 13:11:29
YU7ZZ 10m FT8 2179 km 11:30:30
IZ8LDQ 10m FT8 2173 km 13:24:30
SP4DM 10m FT8 2119 km 13:01:31
IZ8FAV 10m FT8 2117 km 13:05:44
IZ8VYU 10m FT8 2076 km 13:28:14
9A2VQ 10m FT8 2075 km 09:38:59
9A3KG 10m FT8 2063 km 11:50:15
HA5KN 10m FT8 2032 km 11:30:30
OM7ASP 10m FT8 2023 km 07:40:14