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| Aberystwyth's RADAR showing modest ionisation today. |
Despite the remarkable popularity of WSPR for beaconing, there's scant activity on 6m, even in Europe.
This is more of a problem for this band than most, because Es frequently allows only very narrow and limited paths between a few stations. So, if there aren't any stations in the right area, we'll never know there was an Es cloud floating up there.
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| Listening - and sending - patiently on 6m WSPR... |
Today is a good example. Although atmospheric RADAR is showing modest, transient ionisation where we might expect some reflections on 6m from time to time, France and Spain currently has only one station between them active on WSPR on that band. Nobody in Italy (one pops up sometimes), and the rest of Europe represented only by Germany, which has a fair number, the UK and the Netherlands.
Strangely, CN8LI, an early and remarkably strong WSPR station in 2014, hasn't been seen even switching on this year.
2 comments:
Hello John, reading back in my own blog real 6m propagation started in June. We had bad propagation on 6m last year as well everyone complaining. Despite that I was lucky and made a QSO with Puerto Rico with only a vertical and 5W QRP JT65 mode. I remember doing some WSPR 6m last year but it was kind of dull sometimes being spot by no one for days. Personally I think that would be a waste of time and energy. If stations are being spot the activity will increase. You see the same on the 10m band. I will install my 6m antenna next month as I have some other radioactivities right now as you have probabely read. 73, Bas
Yes, it is a little early, although there have been some good Scandinavia - Spain spots from a few days ago and even this morning.
I've also noticed, and not just on 6m, that sometimes you see no WSPR spots at all, whilst there are people talking at 59 on SSB! Sometimes this is the narrow connection brought about by Es, but sometimes it isn't. Most strange!
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