Monday, 16 March 2020

Amazing opening on 10m (or was it?)

Things were looking good on the higher bands since first thing this morning.

My 10m antenna is pretty basic, but is efficient: a 20m vertical delta matching perfectly at 10m.

Despite this simplicity and extremely non-ideal radiation pattern for DX (it becomes a E-W dipole pattern, with a broad, very high lobe), I got a remarkable report from DS3SHI, who appears to have a Yagi of some sort beaming 035 degrees (i.e. towards North America).  At the time, it was around midnight over there:

First spot. Terminator correct for spot.
The path seems to have been relatively stable, as my ~35W FT8 was spotted again a few minutes later.  Sadly, perhaps as it was late there, nobody answered my call from DS-land. Or, as PE4BAS comments below, it was simply a case of remote SDR listening?

Second spot. Terminator correct for spot.


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3 comments:

  1. PE4BAS, Bas16 March 2020 at 16:05

    DS3SHI did see a lot in Europe on 10m. But nothing else! There is a possebility he listened via a webSDR in Europe....73, Bas

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  2. John, EI7GL19 March 2020 at 23:23

    John, I read your post on the 19th of March and I checked if that station had heard anything today. Sure enough, DS3SHI had heard several Europeans on 10m on the 19th and one station in Cape Town but nothing in South Korea, Japan or China.

    Almost certainly not genuine.

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    1. Photon20 March 2020 at 14:29

      Thanks John. Another anomaly of the internet age. It was fun whilst it lasted!

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