My VHF antennas have passed a visual inspection. They survived the ice and snow of winter remarkably well and are still intact. This is very fortunate because in spring and summer I devote more time to listening on the VHF bands in order not to miss the favourable atmospheric conditions, more frequent at this time of year, which allow greatly extended communication ranges on these wavelengths.
Such conditions occurred earlier today in a SSE direction, when I contacted numerous amateur radio stations on the 6 metre band, ( 50MHz ), upto 1840 kms away in southern Bulgaria and Greece.
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