Saturday 1st May 2021: In contrast to the previous day, the 28 MHz band was pretty poor with just a weak Sporadic-E opening to the northern parts of Spain and Portugal.
The only unusual signals were those from South America. While it has been very common to hear the south of Brazil, it's unusual to hear stations from Venezuela, Ecuador and Costa Rica.
Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
PT9IR 10m FT8 9200 km 18:29:00
HC2AO 10m FT8 8949 km 20:45:59
TI5LEV 10m FT8 8174 km 21:58:59
PV8AJ 10m FT8 7268 km 21:26:59
YV5JAU 10m FT8 6965 km 20:51:44
Just 30 stations on FT8 in 15 countries were heard.
Indeed John, I have the same experience:
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I don't know if this is really unusual or just the time of year. It was reported the night before as well on 11m. Unusual strong signals from the west-indies.
73, Bas
H Bas. Now that the Sporadic-E season has started, there is a good chance that your first hop to the west was via Sp-E and then via F2 to the NE of South America. Wherever your first hop was landing, it was further south (higher F2 MUF) and it was near sunset (F2 peak).
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