Analysing my own QSOs and other’s reports it seems the East side of Ireland and West side of UK mainland where were enhancement was strongest.
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He was /p.
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That’s where lift was predicted to be the strongest: Tropospheric Ducting Forecast for VHF & UHF Radio & TV
Here’s a screen shot what is looked like late Sunday: © 2025 William R. Hepburn
And courtesy of https://www.scadacore.com/tools/rf-path/rf-line-of-sight/ , here’e the path we managed between G/DC-001 and GI/MM-006. By then, I’d switched to my FT-65e. 255 miles. Thanks for chasing @MI0SRR 
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Shame, I had to fix broken gear like 70 cm mast preamp at daylight. This took all day on Saturday and Sunday. I guess, nobody was still out in the hills after sunset.
From the DL perspective, yes.
I worked south-G and EI on 70 cm SSB on Saturday night and some IO93 and F stations on 2 m SSB. Cracking signals from IO93.
I would have loved to chase a UK summit station. However, you guys may be lucky. Lift condx in the UK seem to last until 70 cm activity night.
GL & Ahoi
Pom
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/P near Larne? Was it S2S to Agnew’s Hill GI/AH-005?
That diagram is very inaccurate… no Earth bulge. So it doesn’t convey just how much tropo enhancement there was. Normally you’d expect somewhere 220-260km for those heights and normal propagation. So your 408km path is 60% more than typical, which is nice.
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i was out on my motorbike on Saturday and went up Danby Beacon, nice views, on top of the NY moors. I heard West Yorkshire, Ayreshire and a welsh station from my yaesu HT. I only managed to work Consett and a 2/2 reported qso with GB2MAY in Otley chevin. got me thinking of getting out on radio more with the use of my motorbike 
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So good to see folks having great success. Lots of 270 DX (I am envious of that EI to Austria QSO on 70cm!).
It’s made me look in to a whopper 10el Yagi for some reason. If I can get a PB on 2 meters (cheers Andy!) with 5 Watts and a Slim G, I imagine what, say, 25 Watts or so and a juicy Yagi might do on a good day!?
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Nope, it wasn’t S2S.
Wasn’t just 2m.
I was only playing from home (Wigan - the darkest depths as far as VHF and UHF are concerned) with FM and a White stick but managed some good distances on 2m over the weekend.
On 70cm FM managed down to Didcot (145 miles). Despite regular CQ calls, nothing else in the log other than 2 local stations which was a surpise, I did think , whilst not as busy, there would be some activity on 70cm.. I didn’t even hear (or see on the waterfall) any little squiggles in the SSB portion.
Why is always the day after I’m allowed out on a summit?
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I called a couple of times on 433.500 while I was out but got no replies.
There were a few on 70cm FT8 when I tried but not many.
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