Skywaves DX Forum

Hi Nick, yes I have the Ft8 plots turned on @ dxmaps - i'm just wondering where they get the raw info from as I'm often hearing stuff where I am which isn't showing up on dxmaps. PSK reporter is ok but Id love if there were a way for me to feed reports to Dx maps without entering the reports manually.

Hi Andy,

yeah but does PSKR feed to DX Maps?

I know when I have fed data to PSKR It hasn't gone to DX maps as well.

Anyone know how DX maps collects it's 6 metre spots? (Apart from direct input)

I'd love to feed FT8 info to them, right now I have Iceland, Western Sahara, The Azores and the Canaries all coming in but virtually nothing showing for Ireland on the maps.

Hi Tomas, RDSspy and the Elad work well together you will need Virtual Audio Cable or similar and set up a connection @ 192 khz you will also need to send WBFm Mux out to VAC in the settings of the elad software. This video shows how but there are more detailed explanations somewhere on this forum. ...

The only interesting ones I heard today (next to tons of Cadenas, Cuarentas, Europas, Kisses, Copes and Onda Ceros): You forgot RNE 1 ;) I caught a nice 1kw local opt out from RNE1 in Cantabria about a week ago giving local weather and news. I was as pleased with it as if it were something much mor...

Some of what was heard this evening: A lot of recordings to go through. Log Paul Logan, Lisnaskea 07w26/54n15 Elad FDM S2 5 Element Yagi by K6STI 2018-07-18 MHz UTC ITU Program + Location Details Remarks km 88.80 1708 CNR RNE Radio 5, El Rosario/La Montañeta (STC-TF) presumed, RNE rolling news 2961k...

Hi Tomas, everything I was hearing was coming from Tenerife. Are you listening from El Hierro? Ireland has a very different "dx climate" than Britain. So you may have been able to hear something from here but nothing from there. Sometimes I see other people hearing Ireland but I cannot receive anyth...

3000 km E skip "lame" hahahahah Good man yourself!

Canaries now, Izana loud on 98.1 @1818

Madeira 88.4 / 94.1 @ 1745

other weak stuff fading on 87.6 including MRC

Tim Bucknall wrote: ↑

15 Jul 2018 09:47

sporadic e frequency falls off as you get further north so the north atlantic path is a sod

Was it you Tim who mentioned years ago about the area off Newfoundland nearly being an E skip dead zone?

Hi paul i agree the carib path which is much farther seems to be much easier espec on TV , i have had much more openings on that path than say Canada I'm glad someone else has noticed, thanks David and you are 100% correct because like me you spent years watching and waiting. All those times we had...

And it's at it again tonight. I'm not sure if it's moisture getting in somewhere but the aerial is due a good check up. If i add in the least little bit of attenuation the problem disappears. Odd.

Great stuff, lots of scope for interesting experimentation.

Continental Europe joins the amazed crowd:) @Paul -Congratulations! What a superb acheivement! Somebody has pointed it out - the distance is shorter compared to others' 2Es DXs. ie. my Iran or Kuwait. The Big Pond really makes the difference. We have plenty of arabs in a single Es range, so IRN and...

John mate, if you ever get down remember that this entire community of ours wouldn't exist had it not been for your efforts way back. First with the Skywaves magazine and then giving us nerds somewhere online to share our particular brand of weirdness. And it takes balls to talk about supposedly "ta...

Pretty sure the canaries were on 93.0 as well but couldnt work it what station lots of mentions of "Canarias"

AZR still here but a bit weaker @ 1830

Has to be E + tropo, signals louder at top of band, choppy weird fading

Azores in at 1724 local 88.5 / 87.7 and others

Hi Tim, yes the signal was mono.