Tropospheric propagation on 2m

Very good conditions and great activity in Europe.

Early in the morning I heard some strong signals from Germany and surprisingly the Czech Republic came up on FT8.

In the evening my Laptop decoded a signal from Hungary at 1544km but sadly I wasn’t in the shack to try to make a call!

Working conditions on 2m:

Location IO91 140m ASL

IC-9700 100w

12 ele I0JXX

Masthead preamp

JTDX

G7RDX 2m 12 element yagi by I0JXX

G7RDX spotting on PSK Reporter from 19 October 2022 at 7 AM to 20 October 7 AM

2m FT8 at 7:39 UTC 19/10/2022

G7RDX spotted by OK2WO in JN89 1268Km beaming 100 degrees from IO91 using 12 ele I0JXX

G7RDX OK1ADT IO91 into JO80  1254km

G7RDX QSOs MAP 19/10/2022

William Hepburn’s Troposheric Ducting Forecast 19/10/2022

Tropospheric Propagation links

Tropospheric Propagation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation

Tropospheric Ducting https://3fs.net.au/tropospheric-ducting/

William Hepburn’s Tropo Forecast https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_eur.html

MMMonVHF https://www.mmmonvhf.de/

Adi Map Tool http://tools.adventureradio.de/analyzer/

2m Real Time Map on PSK Reporter https://pskreporter.info/pskmap

JTDX download https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtdx/files/