The map above shows what has been worked from my home qth, Torino. The place isn't so good for VHF activity: the city is surrounded by Alpi from 40 to 200 degrees; mountains are 90 km south-west, 30 km west , 80 km north/north-east far; furthermore in east direction there are hills 700 m. asl for about 90°. Best take off is south-east direction, near Tirreno sea's border; qso's to Adriatic coast are more difficult due to Appennini montains crossing Italy from north to south. Colours mean the kind of prapagations; many squares have been worked in different ways especially the nearest ones, reachable in Aurora or MS or tropo (JO31, IO71). There are also some squares worked in ES and MS (JM76. IM75, ecc.). The shortest qso in ES was HA3RJ JN96 for 824 km. Out of the map there are other squares worked: Israel KM72, Canary isl. IL80 and some from Ukraina.
Qso's in FAI have been done mostly with Geneva's scatter point, using 40 degrees of antenna elevation. In Turin we have had also, from time to time, a second scatter over Budapest, but this one needs EME capability. Another scatter point (90° for SV and 260° for CT) was found in the past, but only following very strong and wide ES opening (no qso, only hrd). Regarding FAI topic, there are a nice page prepared by IC8FAX, Jacob, at http://www.geocities/paris/5256. Aurora is quite rare at our latitude: we had only 5 opening, in 1989-1997 period. Due to poor orography, most of activity was done in MS; in 1998, during Leonids, I was really surprised to get qso's over 2000 km: before I never cross the limit of 1900 km, due unreachable meteors trails behind mountains or hills. Fantastic burst was get from OH5LY; clicking the call you may heard him. Unfortunately in the clear takeoff (south) there is only North Africa where, you know, VHF activity is unknown.
During DX season I am qrv each days, surely during the best time for ES openings; I am ready also for MS, all the year long, 22.00-06.00 z. Any request of sked will be appreciated, via E-Mail: check details in nice Make More Miles on VHF from Bernie, DK3XT.

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