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58 countries heard on 28 MHz - 19th Dec 2021
Posted: 19 Dec 2021 02:06 PM PST
https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/12/58-countries-heard-on-28-mhz-19th-dec.html
Sunday 19th December 2021: I noticed early this morning that conditions
seemed reasonably good on 28 MHz just after the band opened. As an
experiment, I decided to leave the radio on the FT8 frequency on 28 MHz to
see just how many station I could hear for the day.
The result was 595 stations in 58 DXCC countries on 28 MHz which is a major improvement on recent conditions.
Just a week ago during the ARRL 10m contest, conditions were awful with the solar flux down at 80.
A few days ago, a new group of sunspots appeared on the western limb of the
sun and the solar flux has jumped to 121. I'm sure there must be a lot of contesters who are wishing that these sunspots appeared a week earlier.
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