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SiriusHardware · 30th Sep 2020, 8:53 pm

Thanks for taking the time to make such a thorough analysis - it seems this is going to have been a rare or one-off event for me after all.

If that gentleman toils up Slieve Croob every Sunday teatime as he seems to have been doing for quite a while I would imagine he can be heard all along the Irish sea coasts and some way inland under flat conditions, but you would have to be listening on S17 / 145.425MHz as that seems to be where he operates.

Whether he'll continue to do this as winter draws in, I don't know. As an experienced fell walker, I know how much worse the weather can be, and how much colder, at that sort of altitude than at ground level.

30th Sep 2020, 8:53 pm	#34
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,586	Re: Tropo lift weekend of 19-20th Sep (2020) Thanks for taking the time to make such a thorough analysis - it seems this is going to have been a rare or one-off event for me after all. If that gentleman toils up Slieve Croob every Sunday teatime as he seems to have been doing for quite a while I would imagine he can be heard all along the Irish sea coasts and some way inland under flat conditions, but you would have to be listening on S17 / 145.425MHz as that seems to be where he operates. Whether he'll continue to do this as winter draws in, I don't know. As an experienced fell walker, I know how much worse the weather can be, and how much colder, at that sort of altitude than at ground level.