Monday 4th May 2020. There was a EI local contest on the 144 MHz band which lasted for a total of two hours. For the first hour on 145 MHz FM, I worked just one station outside of my own IO51 square.
For the second hour, I left the radio listening on the FT8 frequency. There was very little activity locally but I heard 10 stations in total.
Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
M0BKV 2m FT8 294 km 14:06:14
EI9KF 2m FT8 279 km 14:48:29
EI4GGB 2m FT8 205 km 14:46:29
EI9GO 2m FT8 95 km 14:12:14
EI3ENB 2m FT8 94 km 14:49:44
EI2HIB 2m FT8 91 km 14:53:14
EI8KN 2m FT8 90 km 14:55:59
EI4KP 2m FT8 89 km 15:00:14
EI4GEB 2m FT8 79 km 15:00:59
EI6FM 2m FT8 14 km 14:49:14
The antenna in use was a home made Slim Jim half-wave in the attic of my house so it's still suprising just how far you can get with FT8 on 144 MHz.
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