{"id":10,"date":"2019-06-12T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T08:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:16:48","slug":"europe-sporadic-e","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/radio-propagation-maps\/europe-sporadic-e\/","title":{"rendered":"European Sporadic-E"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/Autosave\/EU_MUF_AutoSave.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/Autosave\/EU_MUF_AutoSave.JPG\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:841px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"237\" height=\"63\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Es_color_key.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2511\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Band\/Frequency Colour Key<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This map includes all reported amateur communication modes including digital modes and skimmer reports, and also sporadic-E Band 2 FM spots via fmlist.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should not include any F2 propagation reports, but errors do creep in. Long distance Es on 6m are sometimes mis-reported as F2 contacts and vice-versa. To see long-distance contacts see the hemisphere &#8220;Es&#8221; maps. FM spots are provided courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/links\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1989\">fmlist.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NEW:<\/strong> View video of the last few hours&#8217; activity <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/webcam.io\/webcams\/zaYAAz\" target=\"_blank\">webcam.io<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webcam.io\/webcams\/zaYAAz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.webcam.io\/w\/zaYAAz\/preview.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:424px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Click image to open animation at full size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Analogue and Digital modes are shown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The map above is auto-refreshed every minute or so. It\u2019s generated by the application LiveMUF by Dave Edwards, G7RAU. This application is available to licenced radio amateurs to produce their own propagation maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KEY:<br>Coloured lines indicate sporadic-E propagation reported in the following frequency bands during the last\u00a010 minute period:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The calculated MUF (<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maximum_usable_frequency#:~:text=In%20radio%20transmission%2C%20maximum%20usable,especially%20useful%20for%20shortwave%20transmissions.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maximum Useable Frequency<\/a>) is also shown on the map at the mid-point square, where the assumed ionospheric refraction occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the image to open it on a new tab and view the data block in the bottom left corner, which includes the date and the start\/end times for the 10 minute period of the current map in UTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map includes all reported amateur communication modes including digital modes and skimmer reports, and also sporadic-E Band 2 FM spots via fmlist.org. It should not include any F2 propagation reports, but errors do creep in. Long distance Es on 6m are sometimes mis-reported as F2 contacts and vice-versa. To see long-distance contacts see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24,"parent":36,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/2523"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvcomm.co.uk\/g7izu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}