22/06/23 - 2200hrs
Conditions are up on BAND II hearing stations from Holland here.

I'm in the Netherlands and can hear UK stations, Belgian stations, German stations and even "Bleunord" from France! The current "lifts" are amazing. A friend in Ireland made contact with someone in Morocco on 2m band (144 MHz), and each was using a handheld with just a couple of Watts output!

Not for me, will keep trying tho. What do you use to receive?

LeeCavanagh wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:11 pm Not for me, will keep trying tho. What do you use to receive?

I'm just using a old AOR AR-3000A and SDRPlay receiver. Have a two antennas up a wide band discone and band II/III dipoles that are on a switch.

The max MUF isn't so high today 45-70MHz over parts of Europe.

https://www.dxmaps.com/spots/mapg.php?Lan=E

The MUF may be lower today, but there's some amazing tropo-ducting in Band II and the upper end of Band I is full of Eastern European stations.

Great conditions especially in the lower FM band - Italy and Spain/Portugal coming in, and also the Russian stations in the OIRT band.

, Yes, really great to see, my car seems to do really well with its diversity antenna reception, often outperforms my qth antenna for fmb

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I've had fm104 over the past few days now

Back in the days of analogue telly when the continentals were still using bands 1 and 3 all sorts could be seen during good sporadic-E and tropospheric lifts. All you needed was a slightly modified dual standard UK set, or one with a VHF tuner. Uncommon, but they did exist.

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there used to always have stuff about tv dxing in magazines like shortwave magazine? never found it that interesting thought, you would sometimes get bars across the tv on the coast, the picture would go a funny colour, suppose I was more interested in hearing music coming through on fm. Even now the freeview does get knocked out for weeks, don’t know if it might be some other transmitter from the uk that does it, annoying for people who live there, I suppose they mostly get their stuff on demand now.