Is it possible to have a satisfactory VHF activity if you live in the middle of a Valley enclosed by mountains with more than 30 Degrees elevation? Of course it is not the same as staying in lowlands or on the top of a 3000Mt mountain! The task is much more complicated. You must be able to exploit as much as you can the reflecting possibility of the mountains and above all to content yourself and hope that your correspondant is patient! After almost 30 years of 144MHz radio activity from my QTH with hundreds of QSO and attempts through diffraction on several Dolomites Groups, I still have a lot to learn and experiment. Conditions, expecially via tropo, change in few instants and you immediately have to move the QTF in order to exploit the new reflection open on the mountain. Perhaps this is what still keeps me particularly bound to this frequency!! I am also active in MeteorScatter although limitedly to the directions between 210°-300° and 80°-120° where the height of the mountains is inferior to 5°-10°. Anyway I have had the possibility of working northern and southern stations via Backscatter.
Please send me an email, TNX !

     My QTH Tesero  Fiemme Valley
      Loc. JN56RG - Mt.990

Propagations

DX

QSO-DX

Locator

Mode

Pictures of QSL

AURORA

728 Km

ON7EH

JO20FV

CW

TROPO

867Km

IK7EZN

JN90DG

SSB

SPORADIC E

1846KM

EA9AK

IM75IV

SSB

METEOR SC.

1552KM

EA4ED

IM79FV

CW

FAI

1006KM

EA6VQ

JM19MP

CW

Here is a map of my worked Squares in 144 MHz,   N. 133 - Country 31, Picture -->