2020-04-27

10m Openings to South America and the Caribbean.

While chatting locally on 2m FM I suddenly noticed that my 10m FT8 monitor showed a spot from Puerto Rico. This is very early for a sporadic E opening, so I wonder what the propagation mode(s) is/are.

All in all from about 2200Z to 2300Z stations came in from:
Caribbean:
KP4JRS, J69HZ and J69DS
South America:
PU5BOY, YY1ALE, YY5YAM, HK3GJ, HK4GSO, HC1DAZ

Though I tried to call several of them, no QSO could be made by me. Best signal strength was +1dB by one of the HK stations. He was detected sending RR73, then disappeared. Maybe he went QRT, maybe propagation disappeared in his direction.

6m was not tested, there may have been some reports on that band by others, I do not know.

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