UPDATE 1233z: Plenty of 6m Es about today.
UPDATE 1428z: Funny how I get reports from a greater distance on 6m than 10m when there is Es around. OK I run a little more RF ERP on 6m (3dB more) but I think skip distance must be longer on 6m than 10m.
UPDATE 1441z: CN8LI has just spotted my 6m WSPR at -5dB S/N. This implies he would still get me if I was using just 5mW ERP on 6m. Magic band!
UPDATE 1548z: So far today CN8LI (2113km) has spotted my 1W ERP 6m WSPR 10 times. Strongest report was +4dB S/N. Incredible Es. He has been spotting me for almost 4 hours.
UPDATE 1748z: 6m unique WSPR spots, so far today. Plenty of decent Es around:
UPDATE 1825z: I see from WSPRnet that 4X1RF has been spotting lots of stations all across Europe as well as CN8LI today.
1 comment:
Roger - I think you are probably right about the Es skip length being longer on 6 than on 10. I have always noticed that the first hop gets shorter and shorter on 10 as the Es muf rises towards 50MHz. This is really apparent on 6m when hearing a really short hop as it usually means that the Es muf has risen into the 100MHz range or higher.
Steve VE7SL
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