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  • [EI7GL] Report on 40 MHz activity on the 8th of May 2021 ...by EI7HBB

    From EI7GL via rec.radio.amateur.moderat@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 12 15:32:40 2021
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    EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

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    Report on 40 MHz activity on the 8th of May 2021 ...by EI7HBB

    Posted: 12 May 2021 06:00 AM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/05/report-on-40-mhz-activity-on-8th-of-may.html



    Lloyd, EI7HBB reports that he was active on the 40 MHz band on the 8th of
    May and caught the extensive Sporadic-E opening. He managed to work S50B in Slovenia twice on SSB during the day as well as hearing S57RW and S5/M0MPM
    on FT8.

    LLoyd also reports managing to complete a 40 MHz / 50 MHz crossband SSB
    contact with Hugo, ON6ID in Belgium at a distance of about 900kms. ON6ID
    was on 50.145 MHz and EI7HBB was on 40.680 MHz and the contact took place
    at 15:22 UTC. He also wonders if this was a first EI-ON crossband contact
    for 8-metres?
    LLoyd was also heard in the Netherlands at a distance of about 1000 kms.

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    Modest day on 28 MHz - 11th May 2021

    Posted: 12 May 2021 02:05 AM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/05/modest-day-on-28-mhz-11th-may-2021.html





    After the big Sporadic-E openings over the weekend, Monday the 10th of May
    was pretty subdued on 28 MHz with just 7 stations heard on WSPR. Tuesday
    the 11th of May was however somewhat better with 29 stations heard on WSPR
    on 10 metres.
    It was nice to hear the ZB2TEN WSPR beacon eight times which I think might
    be running 200mW rather than the 100mW listed. 'Hear' might be a bit
    misleading in that the strongest signal was -24dB which is about 10dB lower than what I could hear by ear. It just goes to show the power of WSPR fir digging out those weak signals.

    It still amazes me that I am listening to a signal coming from their little SOTABEAMS WSPRLite transmitter shown above into a wire antenna.
    When there were no WSPR signals for a while, I switched over to monitoring
    FT8 and it seemed to be mainly the south of Spain, the south of Germany and
    the north of Italy. The only signal of note was 9G5FI from Ghana.

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