Monday 3 September 2012

Good LF Conditions

I ran another Opera32 test transmission overnight (2-3 Sep). I received some good reports and others did well, too.

My test was reported on by 14 stations in 7 countries: GW0EZY, DF2JP, LA4ANA (a new station for me), G4WGT, G8HUH, F5WK, R7NT (another new one), M0PPP, G4MDH, F6CNI, RN3AGC, F4DTL, TF3HZ and G0TKN.

Reports over 1000km were: LA4ANA at 1102km, 2 decodes at up to -33dB S/N between 1951 and 2045UTC; TF3HZ at 1858km, 11 decodes at up to -33dB S/N between 2304 and 0432UTC; RN3AGC at 2483km, 9 decodes up to -33dB S/N between 2045 and 0221UTC, and R7NT at 2853km, 8 decodes at up to -36dB S/N between 2045 and 0221UTC. A later, offline report was received from RN3AUS (2441km) whose best decode was -36dB.

Other stations making distances over 1500km were: PA0A received by RN3AGC and RX3QFM; UA4WPF received by UA0SNV-1 (2889km); DF6NM received by RN3AGC, RD4HU, TF3HZ and RX3QFM; and G8HUH received by TF3HZ.

Interestingly, the usual propagation indcator, Dst, was fairly high then crashed during the night. See this graph from the Colorada space weather centre: