As the WSPRnet website was down for most of today, I left the radio on the FT8 frequency of 28.074 MHz instead. As expected, there were a lot more signals on this mode.
One thing that stood out after a few hours was the skip-zone as shown in the map above. There was no sign of any real Sporadic-E and nearly all of the signals that I heard were coming off the F2 layer of the ionosphere.
The closest signals to the south-east were front central Italy around the 1700km mark. At this distance, the signals were probably coming in to my location about 25-degrees above the horizon. Anything closer than this resulted in a higher angle and propagation wasn't possible.
To the north-east, the closest stations were about 2300kms in the north of Sweden with no sign of anyone closer.
It's also interesting to note that all of Spain is missing, even the far south of the Iberian peninsula is too close for 28 MHz propagation today.
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