4 Jun 2018

6m: 4 continents and 56 countries spotted in last day

6m FT8 is "humming". Yesterday alone was amazing with 56 countries spotted and some real DX to the Caribbean and South America. There is good EU Es on 6m FT8 this morning as well.

UPDATE 0845z: Amazing DX! K6CWQ (8557km) in California just spotted on 6m FT8! This cannot be multi hop Es: I am more convinced than ever this is some other E layer propagation. This station was widely spotted across Europe. As Steve (see below) points out, this could be a European pirate, sadly. If there were some USA spots, it might be more believable.

See https://sites.google.com/site/g3xbmqrp3/vuhf/noctilucent.

2 comments:

Steve McDonald said...

Something fishy with this K6 call Roger and W6 to EU at ~ 2 a.m. in W6 not likely. PSK map very odd when this call searched. Even the very big California kilowatts have not worked EU yet this season. Maybe someone in EU having some fun?

Roger G3XBM said...

Sadly, ALL the spots are by Europeans, with none in the USA, which makes me suspicious too.