Opera8 Overnight

DK7FC ran high power on Opera8 on 136kHz (dial), 137.6kHz (actual). This resulted in a lot of listener interest and a few transmitting stations, including myself. He reached Iceland and several western Russian stations at distances up to 2848km.

My 400mW ERP was received by DF2JP, F4DTL, F6CNI, G0TKN, G4MDH, G4WGT, G8HUH, GW0EZY, PA0A, PA0LCE, PA0LPN, PA7EY, and TF3HZ who was my best DX at 1858km. The decode at 0119 was as follows:

01:19    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op8 1858 km -30 dB in Reykjavik

01:19    136 G3XDV de G8HUH Op8 199 km -9 dB in IO81mg

01:19    136 G3XDV de G0KTN Op8 158 km -11 dB in Bath, UK  IO81

01:19    136 G3XDV de PA7EY Op8 347 km -29 dB in Amsterdam

01:19    136 G3XDV de DF2JP Op8 487 km -31 dB in Duesseldorf

01:19    136 G3XDV de F4DTL Op8 400 km -24 dB in JN18FP

TF3HZ also received G0HUH.

Opera (and other mode) reception can be displayed on the "PSK Map". Last night's reports on my signals look like this (click on the picture to enlarge):