15,000km opening on 50 MHz between Australia & Europe - 4th June 2021

This will probably be my last post about the openings on 50 MHz between the north of Australia and Europe. Even though 15,000kms is a remarkable distance for 50 MHz near the bottom of the sunspot cycle and it may be a big deal for individual stations in Europe to work Australia, my interest is in the mode of propagation.

For the last few days, I've collected as much data as I could about these 6m Australia to Europe openings so that there is some sort of record online about them. Considering that they are now happening almost daily at present, I think the chances of them being solely due to multi-hop Spoardic-E is near zero. I don't believe it's possible to get 7-8 Sporadic-E hops at 50 MHz in the same direction day after day after day.

I'll keep a watch out for 50 MHz openings from Europe to the VK2/VK3 region which is the south-east of Australia as these are the exceptional openings at this stage.

Friday 4th June 2021: The map above shows the paths from VK4ABW in Darwin to Europe.

A list of the paths from European stations to Australia is shown below...

Txmtr Rcvr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
CT1EKY VK4ABW 6m FT8 15114 km 08:26:44
CT1IUA VK4ABW 6m FT8 15087 km 08:31:44
EA7ST VK4ABW 6m FT8 14730 km 08:34:14
F5LQ VK4ABW 6m FT8 14227 km 07:55:44
F8BBL VK4ABW 6m FT8 14172 km 08:24:44
F4ARU VK4ABW 6m FT8 14112 km 08:38:44
F5LNU VK4ABW 6m FT8 14076 km 08:26:14
F6DAY VK4ABW 6m FT8 14070 km 08:18:14
ON4IQ VK4ABW 6m FT8 13610 km 07:52:29
VK4ABW PE5T 6m FT8 13370 km 09:56:59
VK4ABW PH7A 6m FT8 13320 km 09:09:57
VK4ABW S57TW 6m FT8 13023 km 09:28:57
VK4ABW S59A 6m FT8 12892 km 09:27:29
OE6MDF VK4ABW 6m FT8 12880 km 08:58:14
VK4ABW 9A4K 6m FT8 12861 km 09:09:59
VK4ABW OE4WHG 6m FT8 12859 km 09:27:27
VK4ABW 9A3DF 6m FT8 12850 km 09:28:57
VK4ABW HA1RB 6m FT8 12820 km 09:09:56
HA1RB VK4ABW 6m FT8 12820 km 08:47:29
HA1AD VK4ABW 6m FT8 12760 km 08:46:14
OM5XX VK4ABW 6m FT8 12712 km 08:58:44
HA2NP VK4ABW 6m FT8 12613 km 08:30:44
VK4ABW YU1EA 6m FT8 12578 km 09:28:59
VK4ABW HG2DX 6m FT8 12571 km 09:28:59
HA8CE VK4ABW 6m FT8 12561 km 09:14:14
HA8FK VK4ABW 6m FT8 12560 km 08:37:14
VK4ABW HA6FQ 6m FT8 12531 km 09:27:29
VK4ABW YO2LSP 6m FT8 12512 km 09:27:29
HA0DU VK4ABW 6m FT8 12454 km 08:45:44
VK4ABW YO5TP 6m FT8 12316 km 09:09:59
SV9CVY VK4ABW 6m FT8 12237 km 08:53:14
UX2SB VK4ABW 6m FT8 12213 km 07:28:44
YO6BHN VK4ABW 6m FT8 12150 km 07:53:14
YO3DDZ VK4ABW 6m FT8 12135 km 08:54:14
LZ2XF VK4ABW 6m FT8 12123 km 08:34:59
YO8BGE VK4ABW 6m FT8 12082 km 08:05:14
US0KW VK4ABW 6m FT8 12024 km 09:38:14
LZ2WP VK4ABW 6m FT8 11970 km 08:23:29
VK4ABW ER1002SWL 6m FT8 11956 km 09:09:59
UT9NA VK4ABW 6m FT8 11946 km 08:21:44
VK4ABW UT2XQ 6m FT8 11895 km 09:28:59
TA2LG VK4ABW 6m FT8 11710 km 08:17:14
US1GDQ VK4ABW 6m FT8 11597 km 09:12:14
VK4ABW UT4EX 6m FT8 11503 km 09:09:59
VK4ABW UT7QF 6m FT8 11452 km 09:09:59
VK4ABW UY7QN 6m FT8 11448 km 09:09:59
UY7QN VK4ABW 6m FT8 11448 km 09:02:44
UR6QS VK4ABW 6m FT8 11396 km 09:11:14
UR5LAK VK4ABW 6m FT8 11332 km 07:19:59
UR0MC VK4ABW 6m FT8 11224 km 07:39:44
UX2MF VK4ABW 6m FT8 11205 km 07:33:29
UT4MF VK4ABW 6m FT8 11166 km 07:19:14

Txmtr Rcvr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
F4ARU VK8MS 6m FT8 14129 km 08:16:14
HA8CE VK8MS 6m FT8 12578 km 09:16:44
HA0DU VK8MS 6m FT8 12471 km 08:45:44
YO3DDZ VK8MS 6m FT8 12151 km 08:57:44
VK8MS UT7QF 6m FT8 11468 km 08:14:59