Sunday, June 14, 2026

#6m ZL1RS received?

Spot on 075745 GMT

    My initial thought was that this has to be a pirate. There was no evidence of any propagation in the direction of New Zealand here. However my antenna was pointed into the direction of ZL and I was not the only one that saw ZL1RS. Checking PSK reporter, ZL1RS was active. However, what made this suspicious is the time ZL1RS was only receiving stations in Europe at around 05:45 GMT. Now, PSKreporter does not plot everything, so it is still possible this was the real ZL1RS.




Received by ZL1RS

ZL1RS received by






Above ZL1RS antennas with free sight over sea into the direction of Europe. More info can be found on his website: https://www.qsl.net/zl1rs/index.html

Update 16 June 2026: After other HAMs did e-mail ZL1RS about this "issue" we definitely know now this was a pirate station joking. Location probabely south part of the Netherlands or north part of Belgium.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I received ZL1RS at -14 on my 5 el. LFA for 70 MHz beaming SW. Too good to be true! Frank PA7F

PE4BAS, Bas said...

Zeker Frank, ik heb zo mijn twijfels. Gezien zijn antennes zou het misschien kunnen. Ik zag dat ik 5 minuten daarvoor Japan nog heb gezien. 73, Bas