California & Australia heard on 28 MHz - 16th Feb 2022

Wednesday 16th February 2022: There was a pretty extensive opening on the 28 MHz band with both Australia and California heard. The map above shows the 29 stations that I heard with WSPR.

If this had been with FT8 then I'd have probably heard 100+ but it's still nice to see increasing WSPR activity on the 10m band. Last year, it was pointless listening on WSPR as the conditions were poor and not many stations were on 28 MHz.

These are the top 10 stations in terms of distance and as always, nice to see four stations from Australia on 28 MHz.

 Local   (y-m-d) TX txGrid RX         rxGrid         MHz W SNR drift         km 
2022-02-16 09:02 VK3KCX/1 QF22qd EI7GL IO51tu 28.126013 50 -25 0 17449 
2022-02-16 09:22 VK2IJM QF56ni EI7GL IO51tu 28.126084 10 -16 0 17407 
2022-02-16 09:08 VK2EFM QF56oq EI7GL IO51tu 28.126073 5 -27 0 17380 
2022-02-16 09:16 VK2DVM QF56di EI7GL IO51tu 28.126083 50 -7 2 17364 
2022-02-16 09:30 HS0AJ OK03ft EI7GL IO51tu 28.126081 1 -26 0 10045 
2022-02-16 13:54 PY3FF GF49ju EI7GL IO51tu 28.126123 0.2 -29 0 10028 
2022-02-16 12:58 ZS1LCD JF95fx EI7GL IO51tu 28.126052 1 -17 1 9900 
2022-02-16 11:58 HS0ZEV OK08dh EI7GL IO51tu 28.126141 0.1 -20 0 9629 
2022-02-16 17:24 NQ6B DM12mr EI7GL IO51tu 28.126098 5 -23 -2 8334 
2022-02-16 17:24 AE7YQ DM41kx EI7GL IO51tu 28.126133 5 -14 0 8060 

The solar flux was at 103 which is down from the recent peak of 130.