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Category Archives: Sporadic E
Sporadic-E, Ionoscatter & “Worked all Kazakhstan”
Worked UA4 on 2 m via ES yesterday. Today we had a very nice Ionoscatter opening to Finland, something not seen very often: —————————————————————— DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR BAND MODE PRO. QRB —————————————————————— 29/06/2023 13:41 RN4AT LN29 2 m. FT8 … Continue reading
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Russia & multi-hop ES on 6 m
Six Meters for a change. 😉 Great opening into Russia today, worked a few new squares. Not sure if there’s any legal 6 m operation in Russia yet but more and more guys getting on. In any case: WFWL – … Continue reading
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Scotland on 4 & 2 m in 5 minutes
Very spotty propagation today. Beside working FG8OJ (FK96) on 6 m as early as 11z we later had some very spotty ES on 4 and 2 m allowing to work GM8IEM on both bands within 5 minutes. Crazy … 😉 … Continue reading
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Nice evening opening on 4 m
We had a great one hour opening on 4 m tonight. And some DX on 6 m, too, D2UY (JI64) worked around 20z.
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Sporadic-E to Italy on 2 m
Today again 4 m was open to Spain for most of the day. Later on it opened to Italy on 2 m. Most enjoyable QSOs have been the three on SSB! 😎 —————————————————————— DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR BAND MODE PRO. … Continue reading
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Multi-direction Sporadic-E on 144 MHz
Another great ES day. 4 m was open to Spain for over 3 hours. Unfortunately not many (new) calls worked, seems Four is experiencing some saturation now. 2 m opened to Spain for half an hour, too. Inbetween also open … Continue reading
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6 m Caribbean start + more 4 & 2 m ES
Day started with some ES to Malta on 4 m. Early afternoon the first Caribbean opening on 6 m this season working two new KP4 stations. 🙂 4 m then shifted to the west (G/EI), then southwest (EA). The skip … Continue reading
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Tropo + ES = much fun!
Well, yesterday and today saw two other great VHF-DX days! 2 m was well open via Tropo to the British Isles with over 80 QSOs worked while 4 m opened via Sporadic-E to the west, too, as well as south-west … Continue reading
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More Sporadic-E on 2 m …
While operating the WPX-CW I kept an eye on the MUF as well. Being able to operate HF and VHF in parallel is a real advantage in such situations. So while “pounding brass” on 10 m I was able to … Continue reading
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VHF DX par excellence
What a day! 😎 Luckily I arrived early at the QTH as I’m going to participate in WPX-CW this weekend. This enabled me to work VK8AW (PH57) for my first Australian station on 6 m and finally completing WAC on … Continue reading
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First 2 m ES this year
Seems the Sporadic-E saison is finally picking up. 4 m was open shortly this afternoon as well as 2 m to Russia allowing to work the following QSOs: —————————————————————— DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR BAND MODE PRO. QRB —————————————————————— 24/05/2023 12:16 … Continue reading
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US West Coast Opening on 6 m
It’s been a very long time since I last caught a 6 m opening to the US West coast. Actually this opening tonight was just my second West Coast opening at all! And as it happens during all multi hop … Continue reading
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MM/DH8BQA: 6 m opening from IO75kk
Marc, DO4DXA from JN58, asked during the contest if I could come to 6 m as it was open to Scotland. Did so after the contest was finished and easily worked him on CW with the KX3 matching the ZS6BKW … Continue reading
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Double-hop on 4 m & the Balkans on 2m
Caught another Sporadic-E opening to the Balkans on 2 m early afternoon: —————————————————————— TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB —————————————————————— 11:55 LZ1AG KN22ID +02 -06 2 m. FT8 ES 1454 11:58 LZ2CM KN13OJ +01 -06 2 m. … Continue reading
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Sporadic-E on 4 m & Aurora on 2 m
Interesting day today! Four was open this morning via ES to the UK & Ireland as well as EA & EA6. It closed at 12z and never opened again, MUF down. Thus nothing to expect on 2 m either, right? … Continue reading
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More ES, even on SSB ;-)
Following yesterday’s openings 2 m was hot again all day long. At times we had two or three different path’ open (Greece, Italy, Spain) in parallel. And there was some good SSB activity, too! Not to miss anything I went … Continue reading
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Plenty of Sporadic-E again
More Sporadic-E today with very high MUF, contacts around 1.000 km on 2 m! —————————————————————— TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB —————————————————————— 10:40 F6DBI IN88IJ -07 -11 2 m. FT8 ES 1336 10:46 F6CIS IN94WL -09 -09 … Continue reading
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Bands hot again
Another great day! Started with a JA opening on 6 m although only 3 stations wkd (all JA8 from QN03/23). Once again I had the feeling being much too weak although running 400 watts into an 8 ele longyagi. 🙁 … Continue reading
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Nice openings on 6, 4 & 2 m with new ones
Early start this morning with the first QSO on 4 m at 7:30z into the Balkans. Beaming East 6 m provided interesting QSOs and new squares with UN7DAT/NO00 and RD6AK/KN85. I doubt that the latter is legal but as always: … Continue reading
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