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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Aurora Alert for the 15th to 16th of May 2019

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Aurora Alert! Due to some Coronal Mass Ejections on the sun in recent days which were facing towards the Earth, we may get some aurora o...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Another opening to South-East Asia on 28 MHz - Mon 13th May 2019

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Monday the 13th of May 2019 was in many ways similar to the previous day except the Sporadic-E conditions weren't as intense. It did ...

Opening to Indonesia on 28 MHz - Sun 12th May 2019

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28 MHz was pretty much wide open for most of the day on Sunday the 12th of May 2019 with widespread Sporadic-E on the band. As well as th...
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Saturday, May 11, 2019

Sporadic-E on 28 MHz - Sat 11th May 2019

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Saturday the 11th of May 2019 was a pretty modest day for Sporadic-E on 28 MHz or at least it was from here on the south coast of Ireland. ...

Sporadic-E on 28 MHz - Fri 10th May 2019

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The amount of Sporadic-E on Friday the 10th of May 2019 was a lot lower than previous days with the main opening being south to Spain. Even...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Low Band VHF Log-Periodic Aerials from Antenna Products Corporation

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Thanks to some info from Rob PE9PE, I came across this commercial antenna website in the USA ...  https://antennaproducts.com/ Part of the...
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Opening to the Indian Ocean on 28 MHz - Thurs 10th May 2019

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Another interesting day on 28 MHz with lots of DX heard on the band. Besides the Sporadic-E opening to Europe, there were signals from Brazi...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz - Wed 8th May 2019

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Wednesday the 8th of May 2019 was another busy day on 28 MHz with a pretty widespread Sporadic-E opening to Europe. There were also a few i...

IARU adopt IRTS band plans for 40 MHz and 60 MHz

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In April of 2018 , the Irish regulator Comreg gave Irish radio amateurs access to most of the low VHF spectrum from 30 to 49 MHz . In Ma...

Sporadic-E opening to Russia on 28 MHz - Tues 7th May 2019

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On the two previous days of the 5th and 6th of May, the 28 MHz band was quiet in the morning and opened up in the late afternoon. In contras...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Late opening on 28 MHz - Mon 6th May 2019

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Monday the 6th of May 2019 was in many ways similar to the previous day in that the 28 MHz band was quiet for most of the day and only real...
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Monday, May 6, 2019

Commercial Log-Periodic Antenna for 30 to 70 MHz

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One of the challenges of listening to Low Band VHF signals is having an antenna that performs well on a wide range of frequencies. One solut...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

Big opening to South America on 28 MHz - Sun 5th May 2019

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Sunday the 5th of May started off reasonably quiet with just a selection of weak signals from around Europe. At about 16:00 UTC, there was ...
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Saturday, May 4, 2019

Poor day on 28 MHz - Sat 4th May 2019

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The conditions on 28 MHz on Saturday the 4th of May 2019 were pretty poor with mostly weak signals heard on the band. The map below shows wh...
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Big opening on 28 MHz - Fri 3rd May 2019

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There was another big Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz on Friday the 3rd of May with the MUF extending up as far as 50 MHz as well. The band w...
Friday, May 3, 2019

RSGB Presentation on VHF baluns by GM3SEK

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At the 2018 RSGB Convention, Ian White GM3SEK gave a presentation on VHF baluns and that has now been put up on YouTube. It is perhaps ...

Multi-Hop Sporadic-E on 28 MHz... Thurs 2nd May 2019

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Thursday the 2nd of May was for the most part quiet on the 28 MHz band with the band only really opening up in the afternoon at about 15:30 ...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Quiet day on 28 MHz - Wed 1st May 2019

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Conditions were very poor on 28 MHz on Wednesday the 1st of May 2019 with just one short opening to Spain in the late afternoon. Signal...

New FT4 protocol hits the airwaves

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Back on the 23rd of April 2019, I had a post up about the new FT4 protocol from Joe Taylor & the WSJT team..  https://ei7gl.blogspot.com...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Late opening to EA8 on 28 MHz - Tues 30th Apr 2019

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In contrast to the last few days, Tuesday the 30th of April was really quiet on 28 MHz for the most part. In fact, it had seemed pretty re...