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I’ve done Long Island to Virginia with 3W on a portable at 146 MHz, but the range being seen on 800-900 MHz around Netherlands is quite amazing.

I would agree it must be tropospheric ducting; I’m not aware of any other propagation mode that could be at work here.

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That's impressive. It must have felt pretty amazing!

There was a guy in one of the FM DXing groups on Facebook recently who posted a video of a French-language Canadian FM broadcast station he picked up from the Florida panhandle.

Agreed. Tropo ducting is the only propagation that seems feasible for microwave. Fun!

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