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    Guest Post: 40 MHz band on 7th & 8th May 2021 ...by F1EIT

    Posted: 09 May 2021 12:13 PM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/05/guest-post-40-mhz-band-on-7th-8th-may.html

    Thanks to José, F1EIT for the following information which forms the basis
    of this post.

    Friday May 7th was surely a great day for the S55ZMS beacon with the first
    40 MHz spots but alsofor 8m Sporadic-E activity that increased on the 8th . Joan EA3ERE put the first spots (PI4) for EI1KNH on the 23rd of April but I heard nothing on CW.
    On the 7th of May, Michel, F6HTJ heard the EI1KNH beacon on CW but I still heard nothing!
    Finally today the 8th of May, both Michel and myself heard the EI1KNH
    beacon on CW and we also were able to hear the S55ZMS beacon in Slovenia at
    the same time.
    I have a lot of QRM in the 40 MHz ISM band (Industrial, Scientific,
    Medical) and sometimes also on the beacon frequency.
    I am still using my 50MHz Hentenna with an ICOM 575A. I am also working on
    a 40MHz wire halo based on the G3XBM (10m) design and am also looking at building a YU7EF 4-element Yagi.
    José, F1EIT


    Info from DXMaps website...Date & time Spotter QRG Mode DX km Prop.
    Comments SFI A K E.MUF2021-05-08 14:43:17 F1EIT (JN03SJ) 40.670 CW S55ZMS
    (JN86CR) 1207 JN03SJ<ES>JN86CR CW 519 growing2021-05-08 16:27:52 EI7GL
    (IO51TU) 40.670 CW S55ZMS/B (JN86CR) 1860 IO51TU<ES>JN86CR 2021-05-08
    16:13:15 G7PUV (JO00AT) 40.670 CW S55ZMS/B (JN86CR) 1265 JO00AU<ES>JN86CR Beacon 5792021-05-08 14:41:02 F6HTJ (JN12KQ) 40.670 CW S55ZMS/B (JN86CR)
    1143 JN86cr<ES>JN12kq 8m beacon
    2021-05-07 18:10:43 F5JRX (JN26AC) 40.670 CW S55ZMS (JN86CR)934
    JN26AC<>JN86CR 529 on BIGWHEEL 2021-05-07 17:34:48 F4CXO (JN26PP) 40.670 CW S55ZMS (JN86CR) 831 JN26PP<ES>JN86CR HRD 559 2021-05-07 14:15:01 F1EIT
    (JN03SJ) 40.670 CW S55ZMS (JN86CR) 1207 JN03SJ<ES>JN86CR BCN CW+PI4
    2021-05-07 14:46:10 F6HTJ (JN12KQ) 40.670 CW S55ZMS/B (JN86CR) 1143 JN86cr<ES>JN12kq 8m beacon
    Date & time Spotter QRG Mode DX km Prop. Comments SFI A K E.MUF2021-05-08
    14:32:37 F1EIT (JN03SJ) 40.013 EI1KNH (IO63VE) 1228 JN03SJ<ES>IO63VE CW529rising 2021-05-08 14:59:02 OE3FVU (JN78VE) 40.013 CW EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1638 59 - 51 with heavy QSB 2021-05-08 14:51:27 S57RW (JN65UM) 40.013 CW EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1666 559 in jn65um 2021-05-08 14:31:54 F6HTJ (JN12KQ)
    40.013 CW EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1346 IO63ve<ES>JN12kq 8m beacon 2021-05-08
    14:12:36 F4CXO (JN26PP) 40.013 CW EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1095 JN26PP<ES>IO63VE
    HRD 539 QSB 2021-05-08 13:55:44 IW4BET (JN54QL) 40.013 CW EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1602 579 io63ve<es>jn54ql 2021-05-08 11:11:52 S50B (JN65XU) 40.013 CW
    EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1659
    2021-05-07 15:42:38 IZ0CBD (JN61FP) 40.013 EI1KNH (IO63VE) 1891
    JN61FP<>IO63VE 558 very clear 2021-05-07 18:23:22 IK0OKY (JN61ES) 40.013 CW EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1876 JN61ES<ES>IO63VE 559 hrd 2021-05-07 15:45:20 9A3TN (JN85UH) 40.013 CW EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1931 JN85UH<AUE>IO63 2021-05-07
    15:12:43 F6HTJ (JN12KQ) 40.013 CW EI1KNH/B (IO63VE) 1346 IO63ve<ES>JN12kq
    8m beacon
    2021-04-23 13:42:28 EA3ERE (JN11CX) 40.012 PI4 EI1KNH (IO63VE) 1394 JN11<ES>IO63 PI4 -9 dB 1396 km
    For more information on the 40 MHz band, visit https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/p/40-mhz.html

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    28 MHz report for Sat 8th May 2021

    Posted: 09 May 2021 12:14 AM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/05/28-mhz-report-for-sat-8th-may-2021.html


    Saturday 8th May 2021: This was another day where the 28 MHz band seemed to
    be wide open with lots of Sporadic-E signals from Europe. I heard 358
    stations on FT8 in 29 countries but that was only listening on the FT8 frequency for a few hours.
    I spent most of the day monitoring the WSPR frequency instead and the chart
    of stations heard is shown above. As can be seen from the chart, I heard 3 stations running less then 100-milliwatts.
    Beacons: These were the beacons heard.

    EI7GL 28207.1 ON0RY/B 19:37 08 May IO51TU<ES>JO20CK BelgiumEI7GL 28243.0 F5ZWE/B 14:03 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN02TW FranceEI7GL 28194.0 IW4EIR/B 13:04 08
    May IO51TU<ES>JN54AS ItalyEI7GL 28240.0 IZ8RVA/B 13:01 08 May
    IO51TU<ES>JN70LI ItalyEI7GL 28227.2 IW3FZQ/B 13:00 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN55VF ItalyEI7GL 28173.1 IZ1EPM/B 12:57 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN35WD ItalyEI7GL
    28257.8 DK0TEN/B 11:02 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN47NT Fed. Rep. of GermanyEI7GL 28205.0 DL0IGI/B 10:23 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN57MT Fed. Rep. of GermanyEI7GL 28241.6 F5ZUU/B 08:12 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN24IL France
    QRSS: The best thing about listening to WSPR is that I can monitor for QRSS signals as well as they just 500 Hz or so below the WSPR frequency. I
    managed to get one screen grab of ON4CDJ in Belgium.

    The Sporadic-E season has well and truly started at this stage and you can expect to see lot of signals on the 10m band from now until late July.

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