Tropo – the final

tropo-12z-12.02Taking the F5LEN tropo forecast into account I anticipated the tropo would move further east this morning and then start to vanish. Today is Fat Thursday in the Cologne carnival which means we only have to work half-day. What a nice coincidence! 😉 As I’m not much into all the carnival stuff I used the chance to be back home early and switch on the remote station again. Early enough to still be able to do a few more tropo QSOs. 😉 As forecasted the tropo moved further East again but it also started to vanish already. There was much QSB this time, especially in all the QSOs into Lithuania. OH2 and ES seemed more stable but these guys soon started to disappear, too. Didn’t expect to work Jussi, OH5LK, at that time anymore, as the OH2VHF beacon had vanished about an hour earlier. Interestingly it returned about 20 minutes after the QSO with Jussi for a few minutes being very strong (see audio recording below) before going down into the noise again. All tropo was gone by 14z overhere so I was very astonished to find YL2GD CQing in the evening. Did a quick QSO and he was gone about 5 minutes later again and since then the band stayed “dead”. So some nice tropo finally ended with 70 QSOs in the log. I really enjoyed it! All QSOs were done with about 650-700 W into a 9 ele LFA Yagi. This afternoon I switched down to shortwave once after I saw K1N beeing spotted on RTTY. Heard and saw the mess and immediately switched back to 2 m. VHF, Yours is My Heart Alone. 😉

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 TIME  CALLSIGN        LOCATOR TX      RX      BAND  MODE      QRB
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11:32  ES1CW           KO29HK  529     599     2 m.  CW        944
11:33  ES3RF           KO29IF  559     569     2 m.  CW        932
11:38  YL2FZ           KO37QI  549     579     2 m.  CW        952
11:46  YL3IQ           KO17OD  539     599     2 m.  CW        720
11:49  R2FAD           KOØ4FW  549     579     2 m.  CW        452
11:51  LY2LE           KO24OQ  559     579     2 m.  CW        738
11:58  LY1CO           KO15XG  539     539     2 m.  CW        674
12:01  LY1CR           KO15CL  569     579     2 m.  CW        577
12:03  OK1FFW          JN69JK  539     559     2 m.  CW        428
12:07  OH2AUK          KO19TX  579     599     2 m.  CW        948
12:19  YL2AJ           KO16OX  579     559     2 m.  CW        710
12:23  OH2AXH          KP2ØOK  52      52      2 m.  SSB      1045
13:00  LY2CH           KO15OV  559     579     2 m.  CW        653
13:02  YL2QW           KO17OD  529     559     2 m.  CW        720
13:04  LY2HM           KO15CX  519     559     2 m.  CW        601
13:07  SKØEN           JO99JX  57      59      2 m.  SSB       805
13:10  SMØFZH          JO99HI  57      59      2 m.  SSB       737
13:14  SP1JQJ          JO73GJ  59      59      2 m.  SSB        32
13:27  OH5LK           KP3ØON  55      55      2 m.  SSB      1134
18:15  YL2GD           KO37ML  529     559     2 m.  CW        939
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Jussi, OH5LK, CQing on CW:

OH2VHF/B, very strong for a few minutes:

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