• [EI7GL] 15,000km opening on 50 MHz between Australia & Europe - 4th Jun

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    15,000km opening on 50 MHz between Australia & Europe - 4th June 2021

    Posted: 05 Jun 2021 02:17 AM PDT https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2021/06/15000km-opening-on-50-mhz-between_5.html




    This will probably be my last post about the openings on 50 MHz between the north of Australia and Europe. Even though 15,000kms is a remarkable
    distance for 50 MHz near the bottom of the sunspot cycle and it may be a
    big deal for individual stations in Europe to work Australia, my interest
    is in the mode of propagation.
    For the last few days, I've collected as much data as I could about these
    6m Australia to Europe openings so that there is some sort of record online about them. Considering that they are now happening almost daily at
    present, I think the chances of them being solely due to multi-hop
    Spoardic-E is near zero. I don't believe it's possible to get 7-8
    Sporadic-E hops at 50 MHz in the same direction day after day after day.
    I'll keep a watch out for 50 MHz openings from Europe to the VK2/VK3 region which is the south-east of Australia as these are the exceptional openings
    at this stage.
    Friday 4th June 2021: The map above shows the paths from VK4ABW in Darwin
    to Europe.
    A list of the paths from European stations to Australia is shown
    below...Txmtr Rcvr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
    CT1EKY VK4ABW 6m FT8 15114 km 08:26:44
    CT1IUA VK4ABW 6m FT8 15087 km 08:31:44
    EA7ST VK4ABW 6m FT8 14730 km 08:34:14
    F5LQ VK4ABW 6m FT8 14227 km 07:55:44
    F8BBL VK4ABW 6m FT8 14172 km 08:24:44
    F4ARU VK4ABW 6m FT8 14112 km 08:38:44
    F5LNU VK4ABW 6m FT8 14076 km 08:26:14
    F6DAY VK4ABW 6m FT8 14070 km 08:18:14
    ON4IQ VK4ABW 6m FT8 13610 km 07:52:29
    VK4ABW PE5T 6m FT8 13370 km 09:56:59
    VK4ABW PH7A 6m FT8 13320 km 09:09:57
    VK4ABW S57TW 6m FT8 13023 km 09:28:57
    VK4ABW S59A 6m FT8 12892 km 09:27:29
    OE6MDF VK4ABW 6m FT8 12880 km 08:58:14
    VK4ABW 9A4K 6m FT8 12861 km 09:09:59
    VK4ABW OE4WHG 6m FT8 12859 km 09:27:27
    VK4ABW 9A3DF 6m FT8 12850 km 09:28:57
    VK4ABW HA1RB 6m FT8 12820 km 09:09:56
    HA1RB VK4ABW 6m FT8 12820 km 08:47:29
    HA1AD VK4ABW 6m FT8 12760 km 08:46:14
    OM5XX VK4ABW 6m FT8 12712 km 08:58:44
    HA2NP VK4ABW 6m FT8 12613 km 08:30:44
    VK4ABW YU1EA 6m FT8 12578 km 09:28:59
    VK4ABW HG2DX 6m FT8 12571 km 09:28:59
    HA8CE VK4ABW 6m FT8 12561 km 09:14:14
    HA8FK VK4ABW 6m FT8 12560 km 08:37:14
    VK4ABW HA6FQ 6m FT8 12531 km 09:27:29
    VK4ABW YO2LSP 6m FT8 12512 km 09:27:29
    HA0DU VK4ABW 6m FT8 12454 km 08:45:44
    VK4ABW YO5TP 6m FT8 12316 km 09:09:59
    SV9CVY VK4ABW 6m FT8 12237 km 08:53:14
    UX2SB VK4ABW 6m FT8 12213 km 07:28:44
    YO6BHN VK4ABW 6m FT8 12150 km 07:53:14
    YO3DDZ VK4ABW 6m FT8 12135 km 08:54:14
    LZ2XF VK4ABW 6m FT8 12123 km 08:34:59
    YO8BGE VK4ABW 6m FT8 12082 km 08:05:14
    US0KW VK4ABW 6m FT8 12024 km 09:38:14
    LZ2WP VK4ABW 6m FT8 11970 km 08:23:29
    VK4ABW ER1002SWL 6m FT8 11956 km 09:09:59
    UT9NA VK4ABW 6m FT8 11946 km 08:21:44
    VK4ABW UT2XQ 6m FT8 11895 km 09:28:59
    TA2LG VK4ABW 6m FT8 11710 km 08:17:14
    US1GDQ VK4ABW 6m FT8 11597 km 09:12:14
    VK4ABW UT4EX 6m FT8 11503 km 09:09:59
    VK4ABW UT7QF 6m FT8 11452 km 09:09:59
    VK4ABW UY7QN 6m FT8 11448 km 09:09:59
    UY7QN VK4ABW 6m FT8 11448 km 09:02:44
    UR6QS VK4ABW 6m FT8 11396 km 09:11:14
    UR5LAK VK4ABW 6m FT8 11332 km 07:19:59
    UR0MC VK4ABW 6m FT8 11224 km 07:39:44
    UX2MF VK4ABW 6m FT8 11205 km 07:33:29
    UT4MF VK4ABW 6m FT8 11166 km 07:19:14

    Txmtr Rcvr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)
    F4ARU VK8MS 6m FT8 14129 km 08:16:14
    HA8CE VK8MS 6m FT8 12578 km 09:16:44
    HA0DU VK8MS 6m FT8 12471 km 08:45:44
    YO3DDZ VK8MS 6m FT8 12151 km 08:57:44
    VK8MS UT7QF 6m FT8 11468 km 08:14:59

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