Bulgarian Federation of Radioamateurs

Super tropo conidions ... Super tropo conditions across EU on VHF/UHF
 
During the period between 17th-21st December 2007, many UK amateurs
experienced some of the best tropospheric propagation conditions in
several years.
The lift was particularly favourable in the North of England and
along the East coast of Scotland, with stations on 144MHz working
well into the Baltic States, Russia and the Ukraine.
The DX cluster was reporting contacts with YL, ES, UA2, UT2, OH,
OH0, UR, RA3 and UY5. It appears that propagation was also
extensive on the 70cm and 23cm bands, too.
One of the best-reported contacts occurred on 2M between GM0TGE
(IO87) and UR5LX (KO70) at a distance of around 2,700Km.
This contact is even more remarkable given that the path extended
across the landmass of EU and so was not solely due to sea ducting.
The opening did not, however, favour everyone and stations in
the South and West of the UK reported that very little was being heard.
It will be interesting to read reports of this remarkable event
over the coming months in order to determine the range and extent
of the super DX that was worked on VHF and above.
David, G4DHF