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  • [EI7GL] 5900km+ opening on 70 MHz from the Canary Islands to Kazakhstan

    From EI7GL via rec.radio.amateur.moderat@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 26 14:47:06 2021
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    5900km+ opening on 70 MHz from the Canary Islands to Kazakhstan - 25th May
    2021

    Posted: 26 May 2021 03:17 AM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/05/5900km-opening-on-70-mhz-from-canary.html


    Tuesday 25th May 2021: There was an extensive Sporadic-E opening on the VHF bands with openings all of the way up to 144 MHz. On 70 MHz, there was
    evidence of plenty of multi-hop Sporadic-E including the one shown above
    from EA8JF in the Canary Islands to UN3M in Kazakhstan, a distance of
    5946kms.

    The map above from the PSK Reporter website clearly shows the 3 hop zones. First hop to Spain & Portugal, second hop to the centre of Europe and the
    one lone triple hop to Kazakhstan.
    While double hop Sporadic-E at 70 MHz is rarer than 50 MHz, it is unusual
    to see triple hop on the band. Sometimes this can be as much to the limited number of countries with access to the band as much as the difficultly of getting three hops at 70 MHz.
    These are the reports from the PSK Reporter website for distances over
    4000kms.
    Txmtr Rcvr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)UN3M EA8JF 4m FT8 5946 km
    09:49:14SP2CHY EA8WU 4m FT8 4014 km 11:53:42YL2CP EA8/DF4UE 4m FT8 4399 km
    11:40:44YL2CA EA8/DF4UE 4m FT8 4208 km 12:24:59
    It was interesting to see that EA8/DF4UE managed to hear Latvia as well.
    From the Kazakhstan point of view, this is the map for UN3M...

    ...and for UN7MBH...

    These are the combined reports for distances over 4000kms from Kazakhstan... Txmtr Rcvr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)UN3M EA8JF 4m FT8 5946 km
    09:49:14EA4T UN3M 4m FT8 4462 km 10:11:59EC4TR UN3M 4m FT8 4414 km
    10:12:29UN3M EA3KE 4m FT8 4114 km 09:54:42EA1YV UN7MBH 4m FT8 4566 km
    13:53:56UN7MBH EA1YV 4m FT8 4566 km 13:46:44UN7MBH EA1UR 4m FT8 4468 km
    07:10:12UN7MBH EA1AF 4m FT8 4279 km 13:46:14
    DX Cluster: Some of the double hop Sporadic-E spots for 70 MHz from the
    day are shown below. Note the spot for EA8BPX to ES1II/8, a distance of
    4537ms which is close to the maximum for double hop Sporadic-E.

    OK1TEH 70200.0 EA8BPX 12:11 25 May booming tnx! jo70-il18 Canary
    IslandsDH2UAK 70200.0 EA8BPX 12:09 25 May IL18 Canary IslandsDK2EA 70154.0 EA8WU 12:03 25 May JO50UF<ES>IL28HC gracias, 73! Canary IslandsSP2CHY
    70156.3 EA8/DF4UE 11:55 25 May ES Canary Islands SP2CHY 70156.3 EA8JF 11:40
    25 May JO94GO<ES>IL38 Canary IslandsOK1TEH 70154.0 EA8JF 10:36 25 May still
    vy strong I cq .200ssb Canary IslandsDL4MFF 70154.0 EA8JF 10:31 25 May JN57IW<>IL38FX tnx ft8 Canary IslandsEA7KJE 70155.0 EA8JF 10:31 25 May DXCC
    29 WAC AF WAZ 33 WPX EA8 Canary IslandsDM2ECM 70154.0 EA8JF 10:06 25 May JO62GJ<ES>IL38 tnx ft8, 73 Canary IslandsSP5AOZ 70154.0 EA8JF 09:58 25 May KO02LI<ES>IL38 FT8-05dBTnx QSO Canary IslandsSP2DDV 70154.0 EA8JF 09:57 25
    May FT8 -02dB 2230Hz Canary IslandsOK1TEH 70154.0 EA8JF 09:57 25 May
    booming i cq .200ssb Canary IslandsDG1VL 70154.0 EA8JF 09:56 25 May FT8
    -14dB from IL38 2161Hz Canary IslandsOZ8ZS 70154.0 EA8JF 09:28 25 May
    calling u Canary IslandsDJ4TC 70154.0 EA8JF 09:28 25 May JO63PN<ES>IL38 TNX Canary IslandsDF5VAE 70154.0 EA8JF 09:22 25 May FT8 -7 dB 2196 Hz Canary IslandsEA2BFM 70154.0 EA8JF 09:20 25 May Gracias Qso y nuevo Locator Canary IslandsSP5XMU 70154.0 EA8JF 09:20 25 May KO02<ES>IL38 FT8 Canary
    IslandsSP2MKO 70154.0 EA8JF 09:13 25 May JO93CB<ES>IL38FX tnx qso Canary Islands DF5VAE 70154.0 EA8JF 09:12 25 May FT8 -16 dB side ***ter Canary
    Islands
    EA1YV 70155.2 UN7MBH 13:57 25 May IN52<>LO51 FT8 KazakhstanOK2BRD 70154.0 UN7MBH 13:43 25 May JN99ET<>LO51QG SORRY TYPO KazakhstanYO2IS 70154.0
    UN7MBH 13:13 25 May <ES> FT8 -16 dB 1208 Hz KazakhstanOH4MVH 70154.0 UN7MBH 12:08 25 May TNX FT8 QSO via ES KazakhstanYL2CP 70154.0 UN7MBH 11:20 25 May KO27PH<>LO51QG Tnx QSO! KazakhstanPA7MM 70154.0 UN7MBH 10:35 25 May
    Kazakhstan EA3NJ 70154.0 UN3M 10:01 25 May tnx qso 73 KazakhstanEA6SX
    70154.0 UN7MBH 06:46 25 May FT8 -14 dB 1141 Hz rx KazakhstanG4FUF 70154.0 UN7MBH 06:33 25 May JO01GN<ES>LO51QG KazakhstanON4GG 70154.0 UN7MBH 06:28
    25 May lo51>jo20 Kazakhstan
    Spotter Freq. DX Time Info CountryUN7MBH 70154.0 9H1PI 10:17 25 May
    <ES> FT8 -14 dB 914 Hz MaltaUN3M-@ 70154.0 SV8RV 10:07 25 May 0db tnx qso
    GreeceUN3M-@ 70154.0 9H1PI 09:57 25 May +15db!!! tnx qso MaltaUN3M-@
    70154.0 9H1TX 09:55 25 May +14db!!!!! MaltaUN3M-@ 70154.0 EA3BS 09:54 25
    May -20db Spain UN3M-@ 70155.0 EA4T 09:52 25 May -16db SpainUN3M-@ 70155.0 EA3NJ 09:51 25 May -16db Spain
    Spotter Freq. DX Time Info CountryEA8BPX 70202.0 ES1II/8 12:34 25 May
    es 55 KO18 IL18 Estonia (4537kms)EA8BPX 70200.0 OK1TEH 12:11 25 May 59
    Czech RepublicEA8BPX 70195.0 DH2UAK 12:08 25 May ES Fed. Rep. of Germany

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    Reception of the German Polar Research Ship Polarstern in the North Sea -
    25th & 26th May 2021

    Posted: 25 May 2021 10:14 PM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/05/reception-of-german-polar-research-ship.html


    26th May 2021: I left the radio monitoring the 28 MHz WSPR frequency for
    the last 24 hours and heard just over 50 stations from around Europe via Sporadic-E. One station that caught my eye was DP0POL out in the North Sea.

    DP0POL is a maritime mobile station on the German research
    icebreaker 'Polarstern'. While the WSPR station on board is often spotted
    on the various HF bands, it was just unusual for me to hear it on 28 MHz.
    As the map shows above, I heard it in the North Sea as it was sailing past
    the coast of Norway.UTC (y-m-d) TX txGrid RX rxGrid MHz W
    SNR drift km
    2021-05-25 08:16 DP0POL JO26sw EI7GL IO51tu 28.12601 5 -28 2 1061
    2021-05-25 23:56 DP0POL JO19um EI7GL IO51tu 28.126065 5 -19 0 1137
    2021-05-26 00:16 DP0POL JO19un EI7GL IO51tu 28.126064 5 -7 0 1140
    2021-05-26 00:36 DP0POL JO19to EI7GL IO51tu 28.126064 5 -5 0 1140
    2021-05-26 00:56 DP0POL JO19tq EI7GL IO51tu 28.126063 5 -4 0 1146
    2021-05-26 01:16 DP0POL JO19tr EI7GL IO51tu 28.126063 5 -7 0 1150
    2021-05-26 01:36 DP0POL JO19st EI7GL IO51tu 28.126063 5 -11 0 1153
    2021-05-26 01:56 DP0POL JO19su EI7GL IO51tu 28.126063 5 -9 0 1156
    2021-05-26 02:16 DP0POL JO19sv EI7GL IO51tu 28.126062 5 -16 0 1159

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