Today from the mobile and with 10 watts I had contacts from my location in Paignton, Devon into N. Ireland with GI4EBS and MI5LYN/M, both were a good 5/9+20dB, with myself 5/9.
These two stations are around 320 miles away, to me this seems like a Sporadic E contact like you would get on 10m, or a typical inter'g' on 40m/80m, I've never heard any 'G' stations on skip on 20m before.
There was no fading on the signals either way.
Hi Paul, indeed I noticed a lot of short skip on 20 meter too. Normally I can't hear England or Germany on 20 meter, but now I do. Maybe Es propagation. 73 Paul
ReplyDeleteBTW you have an old URL of N2UGB in your blogroll. Now he has a new one. 73 Paul
ReplyDeleteHi Paul, it's fascinating how the propogation works, I don't think Amateur Radio will ever stop surprising me in one way or another.
ReplyDeleteI'll have a look to see if I can change that, re Dick's blog, in my dashboard I have his latest link, and have just made 2 post's on his blog to prove it !!
73 Paul.