52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 28: Receive a station on 6m via sporadic E

Challenge for 2025-07-07 - 2025-07-13:

Category: 📻 - Difficulty: 🟠

Receive a station on 6m via sporadic E

How could you tell the propagation mode was Sporadic E?
What are the best times of the day for Sporadic E propagation at your location?
What was the range of the stations you received?

Toots mentioning this challenge

Date	User	User score	Status	Toot summary & link
2025-05-08 19:57:32	n8dmt@mastodon.radio	21	Working on it...	Looking over the listing shows HC28 to be of interest (working 6m ES-skip is always fun). Issue is that my indoor mag loop does not cover 6m (only up to 10m).Need to set a mental reminder to review this challenge again after setting up a temp OUTDOOR antenna over 2024 ARRL Field Day weekend. Typically try to work a station or two on each of the allowed bands (40m and up) as part of that activity. Worked a few CW and FT-8 stations last year on 6m…#HamRadio #HamChallenge
2025-05-19 01:32:32	yo3gnd@mastodon.radio	30	Success!	The condx were terrible and I really, really hoped for a 6m qso, but nothing happened. I did hear F4JRC, about 2000 km away on the magic band #HC28S.Contacting other xOTA station wasn't as easy as the usual P2P or P2S, but I did get ~15 in the log, not counting multiple parks and multiple ops setups. #HC16SI even had some CW qsos with other hams with whom I share this instance #HC38S, but I couldn't find someone for #HC30 #hamchallenge
2025-05-19 01:51:34	yo3gnd@mastodon.radio	30	Success!	The condx were terrible and I really, really hoped for a 6m qso, but nothing happened. I did hear F4JRC, about 2000 km away, on the magic band #HC28S.Contacting other xOTA stations wasn't as easy as the usual P2P or P2S, but I did get ~15 in the log, not counting multiple parks and multiple ops setups. #HC16SI even had some CW qsos with other hams with whom I share this instance #HC38S, but I couldn't find someone for #HC30 #hamchallenge

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