Sporadic-E was quite localized today. While 6 m was open into different directions (worked A7/LL55, 5T/IL10 and EA8/IL17 on double hops) it was basically Spain only on 4 m starting to open early evening only and one hour later 2 m opened, too:
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 18:16 EA5IK IM98PG -06 -04 2 m. FT8 ES 2013 18:37 EA5IDZ IM97JW -11 +03 2 m. FT8 ES 2067 18:40 EA5FKT IM98OM +01 -14 2 m. FT8 ES 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------
There was a bit of traditional mode activity (CW & SSB) this time on 4 m, too:
DL3BQA working EA6SA on 4 m (sri bad quality):
Uwe, DL3BQA, is QRV on 4 m since a few weeks from home using his newly aquired IC-7300 into his shortwave antenna. Making comparisons to my station 4 km away we found on most signals signal strength not to differ too much. Of course the 6 ele Yagi performs better but after all there were not that many stations he could not work with his setup. And he certainly made up a bit having 3-4 dB more TX power compared to my transverter solution …
So that makes us 4 DLs QRV from JO73 on 4 m now plus a few SP1s.