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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Opening on 28 MHz to South Africa & Europe... Sat 24th Apr 2021



Saturday 24th April 2021: This was another reasonable day on the 28 MHz band with a weak opening to South Africa and a reasonable Sporadic-E opening to Europe.

The signals to Europe were strong at times but I couldn't do a scan of the band at those times.

The one beacon I did hear was PI7BXM beacon in the Netherlands...

EI7GL 28254.0 PI7BXM/B 15:50 24 Apr IO51TU<ES>JO21WF Netherlands

The map above show the extent of the Sporadic-E opening to Europe. For the first time this year, there was a good number of signals from Finland and the Baltic states.

A total of 169 stations were heard on FT8 in 20 countries. The solar flux was down at 77.

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2 comments:

  1. PE4BAS, BasApril 25, 2021 at 9:48 AM

    Very nice John, it occurs to me there was no F2 propagation on your side. We had some mixed ES and F2 here. See my blog: https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/2021/04/waiting-for-es-season-australia-on-10m.html

    This morning (sunday 25th) I was monitoring 10m but excpet one french station nothing heard. Switching to 6m the band was full of signals from Germany. Interesting.....

    73, Bas

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  2. John, EI7GLApril 25, 2021 at 1:11 PM

    Hi Bas, most of those signals from Germany on 50 MHz are via tropo. There's a lot to be said for the 'Sunday Morning' Effect' when everyone turns on their radio! :)

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