Monday 13th April 2020. The big suprise on 28 MHz was the reception of HS5YLK in Thailand in SE Asia at the distance of 9,460 kms. This coincided with a reasonable Sporadic-E opening in Europe which was further to the north than usual.
This is a map showing the stations in Europe that heard HS5YLK...
Its interesting to see a small footprint across the south of the UK and Ireland and yet, there were no reports from the Netherlands and just one in Germany. There are large numbers of active stations there on FT8 but it looks as if they were in the skip zone for this particular hop.
In Europe, there were reasonable signals to the north of Italy, the north of Germany, Denmark and the south of Sweden.
Beacons... There were the beacons heard...
EI7GL 28298.0 SK7GH/B 14:57 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28292.2 SK0CT/B 14:56 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28271.0 OZ7IGY/B 14:53 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28245.2 DB0TEN/B 13:40 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28278.1 DB0UM/B 13:37 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28276.7 DM0AAB/B 13:36 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28173.1 IZ1EPM/B 12:52 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28188.0 OE3XAC/B 12:49 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28321.7 I3GNQ/B 12:11 13 Apr IO51TU
EI7GL 28227.2 IW3FZQ/B 12:04 13 Apr IO51TU<>JN55VF Italy
This was the first time I heard the Danish and Swedish beacons this year. There was no sign of the beacons from the south of Germany this time.
These are the FT8 station heard in excess of 2000kms...