There was a modest opening via F2 propagation on 28 MHz on Wednesday the 31st of March 2021 with Israel, South Africa, Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, Brazil & Uruguay.
Sometimes with FT8, my PC is decoding signals that I can't hear but some of these were very audible. I checked the beacon band and I heard the ZS6WAB beacon on 28.2048 MHz at about 419.
The solar flux was up to 80 today, a jump of 4 on yesterday.
There also seemed to be a weak opening to Europe with some UK stations making it through on what seemed like weak short skip.
One signal of interest was that of EI2CN who was -6dB even though he is 250kms distant. I noticed that BBC4 radio was coming in from Wales on 104.9 MHz earlier this morning so there was some tropo about. Was there tropo on 28 MHz as well? It seems like it.
List of stations heard over 3000kms...
Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
3B8BAP 10m FT8 10226 km 11:13:14
PY3KN 10m FT8 10015 km 15:18:14
ZS6EB 10m FT8 9453 km 15:13:59
ZS6CR 10m FT8 9453 km 14:27:14
ZS6NJ 10m FT8 9358 km 13:45:44
ZS6UT 10m FT8 9346 km 14:26:44
ZS6LKF 10m FT8 9336 km 15:07:14
PY2EM 10m FT8 9236 km 18:56:59
PY2VM 10m FT8 9186 km 15:28:29
PY2GTA 10m FT8 9161 km 18:38:44
PY2SR 10m FT8 9141 km 18:42:59
PU2MBO 10m FT8 9064 km 18:43:29
PU2KWG 10m FT8 9031 km 18:43:44
PY4DY 10m FT8 8694 km 18:43:29
4Z5CX 10m FT8 4123 km 12:03:14
4X5II 10m FT8 4118 km 11:39:59
4Z1KN 10m FT8 4110 km 12:18:14
UA6YW 10m FT8 3605 km 12:03:59
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