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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Italian QRSS signals heard on 28 MHz - 11th May 2020

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Conditions on 28 MHz on Monday the 11th of May 2020 were very good with some very strong FT8 and SSB signals heard on the band. While the ...
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Monday, May 11, 2020

New Irish 40 MHz beacon now operational - May 2020

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Back in  early 2018 , the 40 MHz (8-metre) band was allocated to radio amateurs in Ireland (EI) on a secondary non-interference basis. Now ...
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Modest opening on 28 MHz to the South

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Sunday 10th May 2020 . Another day on 28 MHz with a modest Sporadic-E opening to the south. Most of the Sporadic-E signals were from Spain ...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Award: 5 Ocean Immortal Aviation Regiment 75

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For the last week, I have been working the RP75* stations on CW on the HF bands from 17m to 80m for the various awards on offer to mark the ...

Weak Opening to South America - Sat 9th May 2020

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Saturday 9th May 2020 . The 28 MHz seemed very quiet for most of the day with hardly any real Sporadic-E propagation. Late in the evening, t...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Opening on 28 MHz - Fri 8th May 2020

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Friday 8th May 2020 . Another modest day on 28 MHz . The FT8 signals heard are shown above and the opening was mainly to the Iberian Peninsu...

Brief opening on 28 MHz - Thurs 7th May 2020

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Thursday the 7th of May 2020 was a good example of how unexpected Sporadic-E propagation can be on the 28 MHz band and above. The FT8 freq...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Opening to Indonesia on 28 MHz - Wed 6th May 2020

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Wednesday 6th May 2020 . This was one of those days where most of the FT8 signals heard on 28 MHz were weak and buried in the noise. Yet wh...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

VHF & UHF Trans-Atlantic path between Cape Verde Islands and the Caribbean opens up - May 2020

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Back in early April of 2020, there was an amazing opening on the 144 MHz and 432 MHz bands across the Atlantic from Cape Verde Islands to th...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Russian 'Victory-75' Award... May 2020

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There are a large number of Russian RP75* stations active on the HF bands at present to mark the 75th Anniversary of the end of the Second ...

FT8 signals heard in local EI 144 MHz contest

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Monday 4th May 2020 . There was a EI local contest on the 144 MHz band which lasted for a total of two hours. For the first hour on 145 MHz ...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Opening to India & Indonesia on 28 MHz - Sun 3rd May 2020

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Sunday 3rd May 2020 . A slightly unusual day on 28 MHz ... 1) There was a Sporadic-E opening to Europe but it has a distinctive 'lo...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Comparison of EI & GI stations for the Spanish IARU-95 award

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The Spanish IARU 95th Anniversary award scheme was held in April of 2020 and they made a huge number of contacts across the world. The top ...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Faroe Islands 10m beacon heard for the first time in 2020

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Friday 1st May 2020 . The Sporadic-E season seems to be full swing at the moment with openings every day on 28 MHz . The map for FT8 loo...

Spanish IARU 95 Award - April 2020

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The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) marks its 95th anniversary in 2020 and the national society for Spain (URE) have a special a...
Friday, May 1, 2020

First contact made on 40 MHz between Ireland and Lithuania - 29th April 2020

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On Wednesday the 29th of April 2020, EI4GNB in Ireland managed to complete a digital  FT8 contact with LY2YR on 40.220 MHz on the new ...

Another opening to the North & South America on 28 MHz - Thurs 30th April 2020

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Thursday 30th April 2020 . This was another day where there was another big opening on 28 MHz to Europe and beyond. A total of 734 stat...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Opening to Denmark on 40 MHz - Thurs 30th April 2020

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There was another opening on the 40 MHz band to Denmark on the 30th of April with the OZ7IGY beacon on 40.071 MHz been heard for about ...

Big opening on 28 MHz - Wed 29th Apr 2020

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Wednesday 29th April 2020. As the map shows above, there was an extensive Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz with 689 stations from 46 countri...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Opening to Denmark on 40 MHz - Wed 29th April 2020

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Wednesday 29th April 2020. There was another opening on the 40 MHz band to Denmark and this was probably the best opening so far for 2020...