Huge VHF Hi Band Opening

There has been a huge VHF high band opening the last 48 hours covering all of FL, GA, & AL. In St. Augustine I have heard stations from ham repeaters from Palm Beach and Hardee Co, and the Fort Rucker VHF trunk system. The St. Aug 146.625 repeater has been opened by stations in Birmingham, AL, Macon, GA and SC.

UHF was open as well

Not just VHF, but UHF as well.

We operate a repeater in Marietta, GA on 443.45MHz. This morning I was hearing a heterodyne and kept seeing MDC ID's on my XTL2500's display.

Turned out it was the NI4CE repeater in Holiday, coming through loud and clear. Was able to hit it with 25 watts mobile in Smyrna, GA near the Glock factory. It was actually wiping out WC4RAV-R!

Nice to chat with my old Florida friend KD4NWL! Never had this good a tropo on UHF in almost 30 years of ham radio!

I was sitting in the room and i was talking to a few people on the 400DR on Wires X C4FM...then on it other side on band B on 146.910..it our local repeater that i have a straight shot at..not even a mile from me...i was hearing a signal that sounded like a distant repeater..so i listened for a few seconds and caught a callsign and looked it up AI4SS...said they were in SC...i was kinda shocked..so i threw my call out and one came back saying he was in White Hall, SC...thats about 330mi from Titusville. FL on 50 watts running just a X50 antenna only 30ft off the roof..

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jeff said:

There has been a huge VHF high band opening the last 48 hours covering all of FL, GA, & AL. In St. Augustine I have heard stations from ham repeaters from Palm Beach and Hardee Co, and the Fort Rucker VHF trunk system. The St. Aug 146.625 repeater has been opened by stations in Birmingham, AL, Macon, GA and SC.

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When I lived in St Augustine from 91-2012 I picked up far as NY and far west was around Texas. The other night I was picking around 200 mile radius on uhf/vhf and 380 800

Check out this web site when the bands are open. The more red on your location the stronger the signals will be.
VHF Propagation Map

BamaScan said:

Check out this web site when the bands are open. The more red on your location the stronger the signals will be.
VHF Propagation Map

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This picture taken a few mints ago and can't see Florida. I've been using the link you gave for a few years.