Thurs 14th May 2020. While the Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz to Europe was modest enough, it was an interesting day in terms of DX. As the map shows above, there was an opening to the Caribbean with Cuba being heard.
The map really doesn't show the full extent of the opening as I was just using a half-wave vertical. I noticed that a station in Wales was hearing Florida and even a few stations in the New England area of the USA. There was also an opening in the morning from Europe to Japan.
I noticed also that there was an opening on 50 MHz from Europe to the Caribbean.
All of these East-West openings are probably due to multi-hop Sporadic-E and we should see many more openings like this for the next few weeks.
FT8 stations heard over 2,500kms...
Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
CD7CKU 10m FT8 12212 km 18:45:29
CE4WJK 10m FT8 11319 km 20:47:14
CA3SOC 10m FT8 11260 km 19:42:14
CE2SV 10m FT8 11252 km 21:08:14
PY2UD 10m FT8 9203 km 19:52:29
HK3J 10m FT8 7942 km 20:11:44
CM2RSV 10m FT8 6924 km 20:43:59
9Y4DG 10m FT8 6636 km 19:37:14
J68HZ 10m FT8 6282 km 21:32:44
WP4IRV 10m FT8 6268 km 19:58:29
J69DS 10m FT8 6262 km 11:58:59
WP3R 10m FT8 6261 km 20:06:59
FM5AN 10m FT8 6217 km 20:57:59
FG5FI 10m FT8 6091 km 19:13:29
OD5TX 10m FT8 4019 km 11:17:14
OD5ZF 10m FT8 3993 km 11:35:14
RD4AN 10m FT8 3588 km 10:00:29
5T5PA 10m FT8 3518 km 22:12:59
EA8EE 10m FT8 2733 km 17:39:29
EA8BFH 10m FT8 2710 km 17:39:59
EB8AC 10m FT8 2704 km 19:35:14
EA8AR 10m FT8 2681 km 18:09:14
EA8W 10m FT8 2590 km 21:05:59
1 comment:
Excellent! I'm active on 2m digital this year, listening and transmitting across the pond. I am amazed at the lack of people making an effort, I have to say. Just three JT65A stations active, one in the US, the other two in Russia. A few more on JT8, but still only a handful.
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