Driving from Hamburg to Schwedt along the German Autobahn A20 last night I listened to Swedish FM radio all the way from about Rostock to Stralsund! There seemed to be a nice tropo lift across the Baltic Sea. I kept fingers crossed it would hold and indeed, arriving at the station this afternoon there still was a lift although not too stable and not extending land inwards on the other side. Worked the following QSOs:
------------------------------------------------------------------ TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16:35 OH1ND KPØØXL -16 -15 2 m. FT8 TR 936 17:08 OH1ND KPØØXL -07 -07 70 cm. FT8 TR 936 17:13 OHØAZX KPØØIF -05 +01 2 m. FT8 TR 877 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Nice to work a 70 cm DX contact (besides Charly, DF5VAE, as a local), too, after we had put up a small 70 cm Yagi recently (the whole 70/23 cm setup is still very QRP but if there’s a lift it works). 😎