The weather here has been fine and dry over the weekend suggesting that we were under a high pressure weather system. High pressure can mean tropo openings on the VHF bands and a quick look at the Hepburn forecast on Friday suggested that there could be some fun ahead.
I realised that the radio station was untested since I changed from PLT to a wifi bridge between the operating position and radio shack, so I spent an hour on Saturday making sure everything worked and also reinstalled the amplifiers following VHF NFD (which was only 3 months ago!). Luckily for me most of the system worked first time and I only had to spend a few minutes with the soldering iron.
I didn’t hear much activity on Saturday, but on Sunday morning 144MHz started to open between Northern G/GM and Northern Europe (SM/SP/DL) and by dusk I too had propagation. There wasn’t much new for me on 2m, so I concentrated on 432MHz, working 8 stations in SM, OZ, DL and SP.
I didn’t hear much activity on Saturday, but on Sunday morning 144MHz started to open between Northern G/GM and Northern Europe (SM/SP/DL) and by dusk I too had propagation. There wasn’t much new for me on 2m, so I concentrated on 432MHz, working 8 stations in SM, OZ, DL and SP.
ODX was SP1NQN at 1186Km, with four other contacts over 1000Km. I did briefly hear LY2WR at 1664Km, but he wasn’t strong enough with me for a QSO. It looks like there is a day or two of high pressure left so let’s hope for some more!
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