Wow! Almost 100 QSOs in one-and-a-half-days on 2m outside of contests must mean there was something special. And indeed it was, we had some nice tropo across the North Sea again, this time on a more northerly path so the typical mid-summer “water tropo” (as long as meteorological conditions fit) could play out it’s full potential. 🙂
It all started yesterday in the evening. After last weeks small tropo lift I kept checking the F5LEN forecast more regularly and predictions looked promising. So called CQ every now and then and finally GM4SJB/IO88 heard me and we could easily work. Later on old friend Jim, GM4FVM/IO85, made it into the log, too. 😎
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 21:12 GM4SJB IO88BA -11 -06 2 m. FT8 TR 1251 21:19 G4BAO JOØ2CG -10 -19 2 m. FT8 TR 946 21:36 GM4FVM IO85WU -15 -06 2 m. FT8 TR 1092 22:02 G4GFI IO91VH -16 -08 2 m. FT8 TR 1001 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Today was even better. Besides Scotland the lift shifted a bit southwards, too, allowing a lot of contacts into England as well as western and northern France (surprise, surprise). But the icing on the cake certainly was working Northern Ireland as the ODX.
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 07:21 F5DRD JO1ØGA -06 -05 2 m. FT8 TR 878 07:46 F1NQP JN19GL -16 -06 2 m. FT8 TR 908 07:56 F6EAS IN98LV -18 -11 2 m. FT8 TR 1165 07:59 F1NDO JN19FM -20 -10 2 m. FT8 TR 910 12:50 GMØHQG IO88JW -02 -01 2 m. FT8 TR 1250 15:01 GØSYP IO83TK -13 -12 2 m. FT8 TR 1099 15:16 G4DHF IO92UU -07 -16 2 m. FT8 TR 969 15:19 MØCVX IO93XB -13 -19 2 m. FT8 TR 949 16:21 GM6VXB IO97AQ -16 -04 2 m. FT8 TR 1132 16:28 G4KUX IO94BP +06 +04 2 m. FT8 TR 1063 16:33 G4PLZ JOØ2PT -09 +01 2 m. FT8 TR 864 17:00 MØCVX IO93XB -16 -07 2 m. FT8 TR 949 18:28 G4EZT IO92CE -12 +08 2 m. FT8 TR 1082 18:46 G4AEP IO91MB -18 -11 2 m. FT8 TR 1059 18:50 F4EMG JOØØWU -23 -10 2 m. FT8 TR 881 18:53 F4FWT JOØØXU -10 -01 2 m. FT8 TR 876 19:00 G3YDY JOØ1FQ -16 -20 2 m. FT8 TR 945 19:04 GØJCC IO82MA -10 -04 2 m. FT8 TR 1163 19:05 G3NSM IO91IS -04 -08 2 m. FT8 TR 1059 19:14 G8JLY IO82WG -12 -08 2 m. FT8 TR 1102 19:14 GØBNR IO92WL -17 -09 2 m. FT8 TR 964 19:18 F5APQ JOØØVW -11 -05 2 m. FT8 TR 883 19:19 G4TRA IO81WN -18 -16 2 m. FT8 TR 1120 19:32 GM4SJB IO88BA -12 -04 2 m. FT8 TR 1251 19:49 G4YHF IO92XW -19 -02 2 m. FT8 TR 951 19:52 GW7SMV IO81LN -21 -12 2 m. FT8 TR 1181 19:54 GØXDI IO91RQ -16 -19 2 m. FT8 TR 1011 19:57 MØIOY IO93QO -20 -22 2 m. FT8 TR 983 20:12 G3YKI IO82QL -17 -19 2 m. FT8 TR 1131 20:39 G8TTI IO81WM -13 -10 2 m. FT8 TR 1122 20:41 MØPNN IO82TS -17 -13 2 m. FT8 TR 1108 20:45 G8REM IO93TP -18 -14 2 m. FT8 TR 966 20:48 G3PWJ IO82WK -13 +09 2 m. FT8 TR 1098 21:01 MØBUL IO82NG -22 -10 2 m. FT8 TR 1152 21:04 GI4SNA IO64XM -07 -04 2 m. FT8 TR 1331 21:19 GØJJG JOØ2ME -22 -13 2 m. FT8 TR 893 21:28 MØKKM JOØ2EO -16 -10 2 m. FT8 TR 928 21:33 GØCUZ IO82WM -16 -19 2 m. FT8 TR 1096 21:51 M7REV IO82SP -15 -11 2 m. FT8 TR 1116 21:53 MØNPT IO92KX -12 -04 2 m. FT8 TR 1022 21:58 GI6ATZ IO74AJ -15 -08 2 m. FT8 TR 1326 22:07 G8GXP IO93FQ -09 -16 2 m. FT8 TR 1042 22:15 MØSLY IO93VS -12 -10 2 m. FT8 TR 954 22:20 GX3WSC IO91VC -13 -18 2 m. FT8 TR 1008 22:25 G8GXP IO93FQ -02 -08 2 m. FT8 TR 1042 22:45 GM1BAN IO88GO -14 -07 2 m. FT8 TR 1250 ------------------------------------------------------------------
In total 96 QSOs were made on 2 m, 50 of them being over 800 km! The following map shows all QSOs worked during the two day tropo opening (including the odd ones):
Tropo QSOs made July 22-23, 2021