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6m FT8 on an ordinary day in September

Posted: 19 Sep 2021 08:22 AM PDT https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/2021/09/6m-ft8-on-ordinary-day-in-september.html





Don't have much time to play with the radio hobby these days. But find a
free hour today. Decided to give CQ on FT8 with about 70W in all directions
on 6m. Antenna is the YU7EF 5 el. 6m/ 5 el. 4m duoband beam on 15mh. Didn't receive any signal. Although others did receive me...

I decided to do the same on 10m later on. Received quite stable signals
from V51MA (Namibia). And he received me as well.
On 10m I used 100W into the 4 elem. LFA on 13mh


Just to show there is always some sort of propagation even on a deserted band...



As a matter of fact, just a few moments later I made a QSO with ZS6AF
(RSA)... His signal boosted by the greyline was -4dB at the moment we were
in QSO.

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