2m FT8

In the last day 55 stations in 8 countries spotted on 2m FT8 RX. As far as I can tell, this is possible any time with normal "flat band" tropo with FT8. Every time I call CQ with 10W and the big-wheel omni antenna on 2m FT8 I seem to reach N. Ireland, Germany and Cornwall.

We are just going out, but I'll call CQ on my return.

UPDATE 1206z: When we got back I called CQ on 2m FT8 (10W to the big-wheel). 11 stations spotted me with the best DX being EI2FG (565km). Sadly, no QSOs. I guess there are far more monitoring than TXing in the daytime.

UPDATE 1457z: 18 stations in 4 countries spotted me after a recent FT8 10W CQ and 2 QSOs with Gs resulted.

UPDATE 1648z: A quick 10W FT8 CQ was answered (again) by DL6YBF (471km) and spotted by 14 stations. It never fails to me how far I can work and get spotted with low ERP on 2m on FT8.