It looks as if there is a remarkable tropo opening in progress at the moment with EA8CXN on the Canary Islands making contact with several stations in the Caribbean on FT8 & SSB on 144 MHz!
These are some of the stations listed on the PSK Reporter website for the 27th of August 2020…Txmtr Rcvr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)NP4BM EA8CXN 2m FT8 5236 km 19:26:26EA8CXN KP4EIT 2m FT8 5189 km 18:00:44WP3DN EA8CXN 2m FT8 5158 km 20:18:59WP4G EA8CXN 2m FT8 5153 km 20:25:11J69DS EA8CXN 2m FT8 4850 km 22:04:14FM5CS EA8CXN 2m FT8 4836 km 17:49:26FG8OJ EA8CXN 2m FT8 4775 km 19:25:26
Note that EA8DEC was also heard across the Atlantic…
Txmtr Rcvr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC)EA8DEC NP4BM 2m FT8 5236 km 23:30:14…. READ MORE
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