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78 DXCC countries heard on 28 MHz - Sun 31st Oct 2021
Posted: 01 Nov 2021 01:26 AM PDT
https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/11/78-dxcc-countries-heard-on-28-mhz-sun.html
Sunday 31st October 2021: I have no idea what is was like on the lower HF
bands but conditions were really good on the 28 MHz band on Sunday.
I recorded a total of 1164 stations in 78 DXCC countries on FT8 which is
really good. It seems to have been mainly due to a very good Sporadic-E
opening to Western Europe as well as a very good F2 layer opening to the eastern half of the USA, South America and the eastern part of Europe. It probably helped that it was a Sunday and many people were off.
I had a quick listen to the SSB portion of the band and there were plenty
of signals. It was nice to hear some CW beacons just below 28.3 MHz coming
in from the USA for a change.
The solar flux was 103.
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