7 May 2022

8m experiment (Saturday)

 After my best day yet yesterday, I am again on 40.680 MHz USB dial FT8 TX. No spots yet.

UPDATE 1012z:   EI4GNB (445km) spotted strongly on FT8, but no spots of me.

UPDATE 1630z:  4 stations spotted here today on 8m FT8 RX with the furthermost ZS6WAB (8931km). Today has been surprisingly good. The ZS was probably a combination of TEP and Es. There are a couple of newly active 8m stations near Preston that I hope to copy.

UPDATE 2047z:  Actually 5 unique stations were spotted today. GR9B near Preston was spotted on FT8 working ZS6WN, but for some reason this did not appear on PSKreporter. At -21dB S/N he was not strong so this might have been Es backscatter or tropo. Now QRT.

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