{"id":775,"date":"2014-03-21T13:38:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2014-03-21T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:38:41","slug":"more-50mhz-propagation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"More 50MHz propagation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six metres has been trying hard to open, but on most days the propagation stops in the Mediterranean and at these latitudes headphones are just full of white noise. However, I managed a couple more DX QSOs on 19th March around 13:50z with <strong>ZS6EZ (KG44)<\/strong> on cw, and <strong>ZS6NK (KG46)<\/strong> on ssb, with <strong>ZS6JON\/B<\/strong> also making an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, 20th March, was quite an interesting day, albeit frustrating! The <strong>6V7SIX (IK14)<\/strong> beacon was widely heard across Europe during mid\/late afternoon, and put in a good signal here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"flagallery jq-mplayer_skin\" > <div id=\"flag_musicplayer_r1205122418\"> <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\":774,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/03\\\/6v7six_6m_f2_200314.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"6V7SIX\\\/B 15:11z 20\\\/03\\\/14\",\"text\":\"<p>\\\"6V7SIX\\\/B 15:11z 20\\\/03\\\/14\\\" from 6m F2 by ei3kd. Released: 2014.<\\\/p>\",\"button\":\"\"}]; jQuery('#flag_musicplayer_r1205122418').data('uid', 'r1205122418').flagMusicPlayer(content, settings); }); <\/script> <\/div> <\/div>\n<p>There were also a lot of backscatter signals from a similar direction to the 6V7 beacon. For example, I heard <strong>IW0FFK, EA4TZ, EA6BB, F4EZJ, S59A<\/strong> and many others, all on a heading of around 200 degrees. I only had the barefoot rig available at the time and, as is usual for backscatter, its 100 Watts wasn&#8217;t enough to make any QSOs. However, the widespread scatter seemed to bode well for some South American propagation but, at that time at least, nothing materialised.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the more southerly stations are having a field-day&#8230; I&#8217;m guessing that all of us in northern Europe are eagerly awaiting some early Es, to get us into that lucrative F2\/TEP region before it&#8217;s too late \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six metres has been trying hard to open, but on most days the propagation stops in the Mediterranean and at these latitudes headphones are just full of white noise. However, I managed a couple more DX QSOs on 19th March around 13:50z with ZS6EZ (KG44) on cw, and ZS6NK (KG46) on ssb, with ZS6JON\/B also [&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":[7,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-50mhz","category-f2","category-tep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}