Well, my wife and daughter wanted a swim in the sea last evening. So I came along to play some radio on dry land!
I was meant to be comparing reception at the beach with a vertical using FT8, and my 3-element LFA at home. Unfortunately, simply by checking the ALL.txt file at home, the software stopped recording reception reports! It seems one has to stop and restart WSJT-X after interrogating the ALL file.
Anyhow, all not lost. Reception was very strong from Latin America, up in positive SNR territory, even for the most distant stations. My ~3W even managed to reach LU8ENU, albeit at a meagre -17dB. At CU2CE, in the Azores, I was a much healthier -2dB. Of course, with Es propagation, the sea doesn't necessarily provide the same enhancement as lower down on HF, because it depends on the position of the first Es cloud.
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