29 Jun 2018

Japan-UK on 6m FT8

Although I have not spotted one yet, G stations were working Japan on 6m FT8 earlier. This very long path opens on 6m most seasons in June.

Personally, I think this is due to ionisation of the E layer due to noctilucent clouds and not multi-hop Es. If it was multi-hop it would happen at any time in the Es season. It only happens when noctilucent clouds are about.

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

UPDATE 1225z: WP4G (6803km) spotted on 6m FT8.

UPDATE  1331z: No 6m Es here currently - just Gs and near Europeans.
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2 comments:

  1. PE4BAS, BasFri Jun 29, 12:01:00 pm GMT+1

    https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/2018/06/6m-rx-japan-29-6.html

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  2. Roger G3XBMFri Jun 29, 12:53:00 pm GMT+1

    Well done Bas. Sadly, nothing copied here on 6m FT8 from Japan. I guess my system is not good enough .

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