First SP-E of Season on 2mtrs

Well yesterday Saturday 12th May saw the first Sporadic-E opening on 2mtrs, (as far as I am aware) for 2007 season.

The reflective area, or cloud, as some like to call it, was located over Italy, and was basically too far away from my location to bend any signals to the UK.

However it is always nice to see it happening and the anticipation that at any moment

it could all change and the band could open up to my area.

Below is a picture showing the areas who managed to contact each other.

Map captured from Live-MUF program by G7RAU (with thanks).

Tropo Sat 5th May 2007

Well I havent managed to catch any Sporadic E openings on 2mtrs yet, So not much worked.
However on the 5th May there was a Tropo opening into europe with many of the big guns
working lots of DX. As for myself I managed to work two stations.
First was DK2MN who was located in Jo32PC he gave me a 5/3 report and I gave him a 5/1 report, he was very weak with me luckily the rigs dsp helped to dig him out of the noise.
Secondly was PA6NL in Jo21BX again the DSP of my IC7000 radio helped to make the contact.
So not much DX but Netherlands and Germany which was pleasing enough.

Here is a Map of Europe with the paths of the countries who managed to contact each other marked on it.

Map captured from Live-MUF program by G7RAU (with thanks).

Thanks for reading.. Mark