Seems we got a golden October again, just a few weeks delayed. 😀 I was a bit late to the “tropo party” on Saturday. Heiko, DG1BHA, had already worked half a dozen stations from Belarus but when I switched on only EW7HA from KO53 was still there, nice DX nonetheless! Quite good activity in general, worked a lot of SP stations while beaming east. G4KUX was a nice surprise heard with the backside, the only G on Saturday and according to the tropo forecast for Saturday rather unexpected! Worked YO5AVN in the evening but the QSO took quite some time, no tropo enhancement into that direction, it probably was “normal” airplane scatter.
After the QSOs in WAE-RTTY on Sunday I switched back to 2 m. Propagation had shifted, we now had some tropo dir west, i.e. into the UK. Not very stable, signals in & out, but a few nice QSOs could be made. Nice to work Jim again! 😉
This morning just two contacts into Scotland again. Then propagation shifted to the north-east, good to catch OH1NG besides two SMØ’s from JO99 at about 700 km distance (they can be worked every day but now also had nice signals, hi).
These are the contacts made with QRB > 800 km:
------------------------------------------------------------------ DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR BAND MODE PRO. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/11/2022 09:58 EW7HA KO53IQ 2 m. FT8 TR 1092 12/11/2022 11:01 G4KUX IO94BP 2 m. FT8 TR 1063 12/11/2022 18:46 YO5AVN KN17WW 2 m. FT8 TR 897 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 13/11/2022 16:33 G4KWQ IO92AQ 2 m. FT8 TR 1082 13/11/2022 16:35 GM4FVM IO85WU 2 m. FT8 TR 1092 13/11/2022 16:38 G4FVP IO94FM 2 m. FT8 TR 1041 13/11/2022 16:42 GØLTG IO81RF 2 m. FT8 TR 1159 13/11/2022 16:48 G3XDY JOØ2OB 2 m. FT8 TR 885 13/11/2022 16:55 G4DDK JOØ2PA 2 m. FT8 TR 880 13/11/2022 16:56 G4TRA IO81WN 2 m. FT8 TR 1120 13/11/2022 17:08 2EØFQT IO93QN 2 m. FT8 TR 983 13/11/2022 19:15 G8JLY IO82WG 2 m. FT8 TR 1102 13/11/2022 19:16 GØJDL JOØ2SI 2 m. FT8 TR 856 13/11/2022 19:52 MØXVF IO94EQ 2 m. FT8 TR 1047 13/11/2022 20:15 GW7SMV IO81LN 2 m. FT8 TR 1181 13/11/2022 20:45 G4HGI IO83PL 2 m. FT8 TR 1121 13/11/2022 21:02 G7DCT IO93GT 2 m. FT8 TR 1036 13/11/2022 21:15 2EØFQT IO93QN 2 m. FT8 TR 983 13/11/2022 22:10 GØBNR IO92WL 2 m. FT8 TR 964 13/11/2022 22:37 GØXDI IO91RQ 2 m. FT8 TR 1011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 14/11/2022 08:36 GM4FVM IO85WU 2 m. FT8 TR 1092 14/11/2022 10:03 MMØZBH IO86IB 2 m. FT8 TR 1167 14/11/2022 10:15 OH1NG KP1ØPL 2 m. FT8 TR 979 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Also worked a lot of PA/ON stations in the range of 500 to 700 km (especially yesterday), most of them running just 50 or 100 watts into short yagis or even verticals according to their qrz.com profiles! All in all about 120 QSOs made during the last two-and-a-half days …
