Coming home after work today I saw a few spots on the cluster that looked like a bit of tropo enhancement between the UK and Western Europe. So I switched on the radio to check condx and boy, was lucky I did so! 😉 Had a nice tropo opening and made some 40 QSOs, the “better ones” are listed below. Nice to experience a small “mini pileup” from western France with great distances! Interestingly the closer UK stations, i.e. G4SWX from JO02, came in best from 240°, i.e. beaming central France. It seems there was a very strong tropo scatter point down there or maybe the entry into the duct. John reported the same, he had to beam more southerly to get me strongest. There’s still something magic to VHF … I like it! 🙂
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN       LOCATOR TX     RX     BAND MODE   QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:37 G8GXP          IO93FQ 57     59     2 m. SSB 1042 16:43 GØODR          JOØ2OP 51     53     2 m. SSB    872 16:45 G4RRA          IO8ØBS 54     55     2 m. SSB 1263 16:47 G3SMT          IO82KV 59     59     2 m.  SSB 1156 16:48 FØGWK          IN88CM 57     55     2 m. SSB 1361 16:53 F6KHM          IN78RJ 549    55     2 m. SSB/CW 1416 16:53 F1AKK          IN78RJ 549    55     2 m. SSB/CW 1416 16:54 F6FGQ          IN78QJ 52     52     2 m. SSB 1421 16:56 F8BRK          IN99VF 56     55     2 m. SSB 1094 16:56 F8FKJ          IN78RJ 51     51     2 m.  SSB 1416 16:57 G4SWX          JOØ2RF 59     59     2 m. SSB    864 16:59 FØGWK          IN88CM 55     57     2 m. SSB 1361 17:11 PA4VHF         JO32JE 599    599    2 m. CW     512 17:13 F5DQK          JN18GR 529    519    2 m. CW     954 17:17 G4DHF          IO92UU 559    559    2 m. CW     969 17:34 G4DCV          IO91OF 559    559    2 m. CW 1043 17:39 G7RAU          IO9ØIR 579    579    2 m. CW 1094 17:48 G4MKF          IO91HJ 549    559    2 m. CW 1076 17:56 DK9TF          JO31NF 599    559    2 m. CW     529 17:58 F4JVG          JN16NL 41     52     2 m. SSB 1088 18:00 DL4EBV         JO31HK 55     56     2 m. SSB    551 18:02 FØFIG          JO1ØJE 51     51     2 m. SSB    853 18:07 F5XU           JN15MT 52     52     2 m. SSB 1147 18:12 DFØFHK         JO3ØLW 559    539    2 m. CW     555 18:15 PD1AHM         JO21WF 57     55     2 m. SSB    608 18:39 G4EAT          JOØ1HR 57     57     2 m. SSB    933 18:41 GØGXT          IO82RF 52     55     2 m. SSB 1130 19:20 PAØDDB         JO32KE 55     55     2 m. SSB    506 20:36 G4EHD          IO93BS 55     58     2 m. SSB 1064 20:58 GM8FFX         IO87WB 55     56     2 m. SSB 1120 21:07 F6DCD          JN38RQ 55     57     2 m. SSB    688 22:13 G4WJS          IO91NP 52     55     2 m. SSB 1035 22:25 F4EHG          JN18EQ 53     55     2 m. SSB    966 22:35 ON5AEN         JO1ØVW 56     56     2 m. SSB    754 22:43 GM4AFF         IO86TS 539    519    2 m. CW 1127 22:46 GM4AFF         IO86TS 56     57     2 m. SSB 1127 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Didn’t think of switching on the MP3 recorder until late in the evening so just a few audio recordings this time …
GB3ANG/B, beacon 1.158 km away:
GM4AFF, Stewart, 1.127 km away, working Sandro, DD3SP:
GM8FFX, 1.120 km, struggling to work SQ1FYB QRP station:
Taking the weather reports into account the tropo will certainly shift eastwards tomorrow. So it might be possible to work into Scandinavia then. Keeping fingers crossed and looking already forward to returning from QRL tomorrow evening. 😉