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25th Oct 2018, 5:58 pm | #21 |
Hexode
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Weymouth, Dorset, UK.
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Re: Band II: tropospheric lift
Also last night the French repeaters on 433.400 and 145.325 were audible here at ground level, which is not much over sea level. Also our local 2 metre repeater on 145.737 had a guy from near Paris working through it. I noticed that the local repeater seemed stronger and a more consistent signal than normal. I'm located near Weymouth Dorset, our 2 metre repeater is near Bridport.
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26th Oct 2018, 9:23 am | #22 |
Nonode
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: 1966-1976 Coverack in Cornwall and Helston Cornwall. 1976-present Bristol/Bath area.
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Re: Band II: tropospheric lift
Earlier this morning I noticed that there were a couple of weak French signals just above the noise on 87.90 and 88.00 Nothing else was about. This was around 2am using my small communications radio just with its telescopic rod aerial.
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26th Oct 2018, 9:34 am | #23 | |
Pentode
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Cork, Ireland
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Re: Band II: tropospheric lift
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As others have said it is unrelated to the Tropo lift at VHF/UHF. (Funny how Ireland's LW transmitter AND what is its sole licenced MW transmitter are both usually badly interference-limited by Algerian stations at night. There have of course been various calls for RTE's 252kHz LW to move up 9kHz to (the now disused in Europe) 261kHz for the remainder of its life but nothing has happened.. |
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26th Oct 2018, 8:32 pm | #24 |
Nonode
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Worcestershire, UK.
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Re: Band II: tropospheric lift
Here's a link to some video/audio files of the stations I was able to receive during the last week's openings:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?...dg7hgdoHfseuTr Hope these are of interest - I'll delete them in around five days or so. Best wishes, Guy |
5th Nov 2018, 12:45 pm | #25 |
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Location: Oxford, UK
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Re: Band II: tropospheric lift
Band II seems all over the place in Oxford this morning, with R4 93.9 from Beckley disappearing under a wall of mush at times despite being line of sight. There appears to be a bit of tropo to the SE - not a major event, but it must be in just the right place. R4 often suffers here when there's a lift on, and I've never been able to work out where the co-channel interference comes from.
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