WHAT
HAS BEEN WKD FROM JN35
The map above shows what has been
worked from my home qth, Torino. The place isn't so good for VHF activity:
the city is surrounded by Alpi from 40 to 200 degrees; mountains are 90
km south-west, 30 km west , 80 km north/north-east far; furthermore in
east direction there are hills 700 m. asl for about 90°. Best take
off is south-east direction, near Tirreno sea's border; qso's to Adriatic
coast are more difficult due to Appennini montains crossing Italy from
north to south. Colours mean the kind of prapagations; many squares have
been worked in different ways especially the nearest ones, reachable in
Aurora or MS or tropo (JO31, IO71). There are also some squares worked
in ES and MS (JM76. IM75, ecc.). The shortest qso in ES was HA3RJ JN96
for 824 km. Out of the map there are other squares worked: Israel KM72,
Canary isl. IL80 and some from Ukraina.
Qso's in FAI have been done mostly
with Geneva's scatter point, using 40 degrees of antenna elevation. In
Turin we have had also, from time to time, a second scatter over Budapest,
but this one needs EME capability. Another scatter point (90° for SV
and 260° for CT) was found in the past, but only following very strong
and wide ES opening (no qso, only hrd). Aurora is quite rare at our
latitude: we had only 5 opening, in 1989-1997 period. Due to poor orography,
most of activity was done in MS; in 1998, during Leonids, I was really
surprised to get first qso's over 2000 km: before I never cross the limit
of 1900 km, due unreachable meteors trails behind mountains or hills. Fantastic
burst was get from OH5LK; clicking the call you
may heard him. Unfortunately in the clear takeoff (south) there is only
North Africa where, you know, VHF activity is unknown. Locators
worked: red Tropo, green MS, cyan ES, yellow
Aurora, blu FAI |
