Opening to Indonesia on 28 MHz - Wed 6th May 2020

Wednesday 6th May 2020. This was one of those days where most of the FT8 signals heard on 28 MHz were weak and buried in the noise. Yet when I looked at the PSKReporter website at the end of the day, I had heard Indonesia, Brazil and Puerto Rico.

The 4th & 5th of May have been pretty quite in terms of Sporadic-E from here and there seems to be a slight lull in the openings.

FT8 stations heard over 4,000kms on the 6th of May...

Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)

YC1JGE 10m FT8 12431 km 10:22:59

YB1BML 10m FT8 12281 km 10:28:44

PP5JR 10m FT8 9663 km 16:36:44

PY2RPM 10m FT8 9229 km 16:41:14

PU1KAQ 10m FT8 8928 km 16:25:14

PY1SX 10m FT8 8915 km 16:29:59

PP2RON 10m FT8 8586 km 16:36:29

PT2AP 10m FT8 8462 km 16:42:14

WP3R 10m FT8 6261 km 21:29:59

HZ1SK 10m FT8 5273 km 15:23:59

4Z1DZ 10m FT8 4103 km 15:12:14