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Radio Propagation

While we wait for the sporadic-E season to get going properly, here's a demonstration fly-through of this afternoon's global 10m to 2m band propagation, recorded live from amateur radio DX Cluster data with a five-minute cadence, at 17h07 UT 28 March.

The yellow lines denote 10m contacts. As you can see, there's not much going on above the 10m band at the time of the recording. All the lower bands have been supressed so as to make 10m clearer.

The number of hops and reflection locations any particular signal path makes are estimated and not real, but is based upon real factors such as ionosphere height, propagation mode and the MUF. Different frequencies reach different heights, as future videos will show.

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Mar 28 at 5:17pmWeb
Show threadScott VE3QBZ1d ago
@g7izu That's pretty neat - what kind of tooling are you using the create that kind of visualization?
Show thread𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫1d ago
@scott It requires LiveMUF on the same machine, collecting spots from a number of DX clusters. Data is saved to an SQLite database. A small Python client feeds the spots from the database to the html front-end which displays the maps. Any hard-end number crunching and display calculations are done in the web browser! Keyframes can be stored and recalled to create the fly-through paths.