{"id":345,"date":"2013-06-12T23:59:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T23:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2018-05-22T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:39:08","slug":"crazy-crazy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Crazy, crazy day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, what a crazy day of Sporadic E on 144MHz today!<\/p>\n<p>Dave Edwards&#8217; <a title=\"LiveMuf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.g7rau.co.uk\/default.aspx?menu=5000\">LiveMuf <\/a>software had been showing the MUF building steadily through the morning, with a few good &#8220;hot-spots&#8221; of activity. At 12:57z the map, with the previous 30 minutes of data, looked like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_348\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LM_ES120613.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-348\" alt=\"LiveMuf 12\/06\/13 12:57z\" src=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LM_ES120613.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LM_ES120613.jpg 620w, https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LM_ES120613-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LiveMuf 30 minute data, 12\/06\/13 12:57z. (c) Dave Edwards, G7RAU<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was obvious that my antenna needed to be more-or-less east, so I kept it there and put a few calls out on 144.300MHz. After a very short while a very nice opening started, resulting in the following QSOs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">12\/06\/2013 12:58 OK2PM JN99AO 59 59 SSB 1853km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:02 OK2PVF JN99GU 59 59 SSB 1879km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:07 SP6GZZ JO80FX 59 59 SSB 1704km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:08 OK2BRD JN99ET 59 59 SSB 1869km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:14 DM3ZF JO61WW 59 59 SSB 1508km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:15 SP3MCY JO71IR 59 59 SSB 1568km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:16 SP6CVB JO80VE 59 59 SSB 1817km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:17 DL5WG JO52XJ 59 59 SSB 1371km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:20 SQ7DQX JO91UT 59 59 SSB 1904km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:20 SP3YM JO91BS 59 59 SSB 1798km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:21 SP7AWG JO91LO 59 59 SSB 1858km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:22 DG0RG JO62JV 59 59 SSB 1423km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:24 SP2OFW JO82XU 59 59 SSB 1768km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:27 DK6AS JO52JJ 59 59 SSB 1293km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:27 SP3LD JO91BR 59 59 SSB 1799km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:28 DD3SP JO72EN 59 59 SSB 1532km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:32 DK3WG JO72GI 59 59 SSB 1546km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:34 SQ1FYB JO73MI 59 59 SSB 1569km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:49 SM7FMX JO65KN 59 59 SSB 1437km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:49 SP1MVG JO74JA 59 59 SSB 1550km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:52 SP2HPD JO94JC 59 58 SSB 1810km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:55 SP1YSZ JO73GK 59 59 SSB 1535km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 13:59 RA2FGG KO04GT 59 55 SSB 1919km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 14:06 SP1O JO73GK 59 59 SSB 1535km<\/p>\n<p>A small selection of audio clips from this is here: <div class=\"flagallery jq-mplayer_skin\" > <div id=\"flag_musicplayer_r984994540\"> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery(function(){ var settings = {\"maxwidth\":\"0\",\"autoplay\":\"0\",\"loop\":\"1\",\"buttonText\":\"Download\",\"downloadTrack\":\"0\",\"tracksToShow\":\"5\",\"moreText\":\"View More...\",\"key\":\"\",\"name\":\"\"}; var content = [{\"id\":339,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/ES120613_OK2PVF_1.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"ES120613_OK2PVF_1\",\"text\":\"\",\"button\":\"\"},{\"id\":342,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/ES120613_SP6GZZ_1.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"ES120613_SP6GZZ_1\",\"text\":\"\",\"button\":\"\"},{\"id\":337,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/ES120613_DM3ZF_1.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"ES120613_DM3ZF_1\",\"text\":\"\",\"button\":\"\"},{\"id\":341,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/ES120613_SP3YM_1.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"ES120613_SP3YM_1\",\"text\":\"\",\"button\":\"\"},{\"id\":336,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/ES120613_DK6AS_1.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"ES120613_DK6AS_1\",\"text\":\"\",\"button\":\"\"},{\"id\":340,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/ES120613_RA2FGG_1.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"ES120613_RA2FGG_1\",\"text\":\"\",\"button\":\"\"},{\"id\":335,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/ES120613_DK3WG_1.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"ES120613_DK3WG_1\",\"text\":\"\",\"button\":\"\"}]; jQuery('#flag_musicplayer_r984994540').data('uid', 'r984994540').flagMusicPlayer(content, settings); }); <\/script> <\/div> <\/div><\/p>\n<p>Very soon after the QSO with SP1O, I noticed that the signals in Band 2 (i.e. 87 to 106MHz) suddenly changed to what looked, on the SDR, like a completely different set of stations. LiveMuf started showing a more southerly patch, including a 2m QSO from CT to PA:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_351\" style=\"width: 629px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LM_ES120613_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351\" alt=\"LiveMuf 12\/06\/13 14:23z, 30 minute data\" src=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LM_ES120613_2.jpg\" width=\"619\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LM_ES120613_2.jpg 619w, https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LM_ES120613_2-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LiveMuf 12\/06\/13 14:23z, 30 minute data. (c) Dave Edwards, G7RAU<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the antenna towards the southerly patch I made a couple more QSOs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">12\/06\/2013 14:24 EA3DBJ JN00IR 59 59 SSB 1419km<br \/>\n12\/06\/2013 14:24 EA3EVL JN00HR 59 59 SSB 1416km<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Audio from the EA3s is here:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><div id=\"c-353\" class=\"grandmp3\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ES120613_EA3_11.mp3\" controls false preload=\"none\" autobuffer=\"false\"><\/audio><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A little later, an FM signal appeared on 144.250MHz from what appeared to be Spanish pirates, who seemed to be talking about Gigalos a lot \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<div id=\"c-344\" class=\"grandmp3\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ES120613_Pirates_1.mp3\" controls false preload=\"none\" autobuffer=\"false\"><\/audio><\/div>\n<p>The final QSO of the day for me was from Angel, EA5SR, who was a massive signal for about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">12\/06\/2013 15:14 EA5SR IM98GF 59 59 SSB 1612km<\/p>\n<p>The easterly patch drifted too far away from me but developed nicely for those in range, resulting in a huge number of great QSOs. Special mention goes to Joe, <strong>CT1HZE<\/strong>, who managed to utilise both Es patches to make at least one chordal contact to Finland, with Lasse, <strong>OH6KTL<\/strong> &#8211; a distance of nearly 3500km. Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>My 2m Es map for today:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_360\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Map_ES120613.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-360\" alt=\"2m Es QSOs 12\/06\/13\" src=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Map_ES120613.jpg\" width=\"413\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Map_ES120613.jpg 413w, https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Map_ES120613-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2m Es QSOs 12\/06\/13<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, what a crazy day of Sporadic E on 144MHz today! Dave Edwards&#8217; LiveMuf software had been showing the MUF building steadily through the morning, with a few good &#8220;hot-spots&#8221; of activity. At 12:57z the map, with the previous 30 minutes of data, looked like this: It was obvious that my antenna needed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-144mhz","category-sporadic-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}