WWV 20 & 25 tonight

[KF0SKV]

Got WWV 20 and 25 over here in the rolling hills of Northeast Nebraska tonight. 0501 UTC.

20 is reaching up into solid S9+
25 is reaching S5, but with deep fading--This is a rare one for me. 430 miles puts this into the skip zone at my location. Normally heard only during Sporadic E.

 

[13dka]

Heard WWV pretty well on 25MHz (and 20MHz) in March this year (at the German North Sea coast):

Of course that's just regular daytime high MUF refraction for long skip. Nighttime short skip above 20 MHz is much less common than that (I think because the MUF must have been very high during the day for that to unfold after sunset). It's these things that tend to stay in memory of an SWL, and every sunspot maximum is a roller coaster ride.

 

[TAC4]

Anybody can pick up WWV on 20 and 25 Mhz let see you
pick them up on 2.5 Mhz, you better have a 100 footer.
Just kidding of course.

Those BELKA's are cool little radios.

 

[13dka]

Heh, that sounds like a challenge! Actually, it didn't come to me until now that this would be an interesting thing to try at night when transatlantic MW DX is good!

What I can show you (scroll down to find the audio clip) is reception of both WWV and WWVH on 5MHz, received with a 3,000' long twisted group of tension wires on top of a low mesh fence along the dike pointing NNW. It is likely grounded in a way at the far end (metal gate in the middle of the fence, which continues for another kilometer) and despite the unknown wire material and the worst (=high conductivity) ground for a Beverage-style antenna and no proper termination at the far end -- it kind of does what it looks like. I heard a 1kW station out of Iowa on 1650kHz with that thing, so maybe it isn't that far-fetched to hope for a Colorado 2.5kW station on 2.5Mhz.

 

[spongella]

Love those sunspots . Thanks for the heads ups.