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Free online Amateur Radio magazine from South Africa - Apr 2021

Posted: 04 May 2021 06:00 AM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/05/free-online-amateur-radio-magazine-from.html




Radio ZS is the journal for the South African Radio League and the April
2021 edition is now available online and free to download.
Link HERE
The PDF publication is 72 pages long and there is a lot there that would be
of interest to the wider amateur radio community.

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Sporadic-E on 28 MHz - 3rd May 2021

Posted: 04 May 2021 01:05 AM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/05/sporadic-e-on-28-mhz-3rd-may-2021.html





Monday 3rd May 2021: Just another typical Sporadic-E day for the start of
May with 234 stations from Europe heard on FT8 on the 28 MHz band.
The pattern has been much the same for the last two weeks. It starts off
with FT8 stations appearing on the screen that were buried in the noise and
I couldn't hear.
Eventually the FT8 signals get stronger and I can actually hear plenty of
them. I do a scan of the beacon band from 28.150 to 28.300 MHz and I hear nothing.
At some stage, the FT8 signals get stronger and I can see the S-meter
moving up to S5 and above. When I do a scan at that stage, I might hear a
weak CW beacon. I'll try WSPR and hear nothing. Once I go back to the FT8 frequency, it's full of signals.
Traditionally, CW beacons were used to show that a band was open and
stations would call then on SSB or CW. They seem to have a lot less
relevance now.
I heard just one beacon on the 3rd of May.
EI7GL 28237.4 LA5TEN/B 18:41 03 May IO51TU<ES>JO59JP Norway

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