More 70 MHz Sporadic-E

“Four” opened up again this afternoon and evening. Seemed very patchy most of the time although Malta, 9H, proved to be the ES hotspot again, the guys were in & out for several hours! Just wished activity would be a bit higher to take advantage of the great propagation on the 4 m band. 😉 Worked these fine QSOs:

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TIME  CALLSIGN       LOCATOR TX     RX     BAND   MODE  PROP.  QRB
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15:15 9H1PI          JM75FW  55     55     4 m.   SSB   ES    1918
15:35 9H1GB          JM75FU  57     57     4 m.   SSB   ES    1927
16:05 9H1ES          JM75FV  59     59     4 m.   SSB   ES    1922
16:50 LZ1ZP          KN22ID  57     57     4 m.   SSB   ES    1454
18:08 9H1XT          JM75GV  599    599    4 m.   CW    ES    1922
18:30 9H1AV          JM75GU  559    559    4 m.   CW    ES    1927
18:54 YO4FYQ         KN44FD  57     56     4 m.   SSB   ES    1446
19:04 LZ2PL          KN23XT  59     59     4 m.   SSB   ES    1351
19:10 LZ2NW          KN23TB  599    579    4 m.   CW    ES    1405
19:30 SV2JAO         KN1ØDN  59     59     4 m.   SSB   ES    1530
19:42 SP6TRX         JO71VQ  55     55     4 m.   SSB   TR     198
19:55 OZ7AMA         JO54XQ  569    559    4 m.   CW    TR     222
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Sorrily SV7GBR in KN20 QSY’d a few minutes too late into the “DL-band”, i.e. between 70.150 and 70.180 MHz. He was just down into the noise then while a solid 57 before when working OZ’s on 70.200 MHz. A pity as he would have been a new square …

2 m saw a good ES opening, too, but as usually the case from up here in JO73 we only “get into the water”, i.e. with the existing ES cloud our signals landed in the JM94/KM04 area, deepest Mediterrenean Sea. 🙁 😉

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