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10m F2
16 June 2014 | by FR1GZ (9734km, on Reunion Is, south Indian Ocean) is still coming through here on 10m WSPR at -27dB S/N at 1444z and again at 1504z at -25dB S/N. F2 propagation N-S is still there when HF conditions are good.
Sunspot count today is “only” 80 – a year from now this will sound amazingly high – although 20-30MHz conditions are forecast to be “good”.
F2 on 6m is very rare except at high sunspot peaks and in latitudes nearer the equator. TEP involving F2 over the equator is more common, but it requires stations to be in the right places to work. On 6m the paths from CN8 to FR1 were open by TEP this spring. Also 4X to FR1 and VK to JA.
On 10m TEP should be more frequent. Sometimes F2 links with Es further from the equator, allowing TEP to be extended to stations in higher latitudes.
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