[amsat-bb] Tropo and FO-29

Apparently some folks were hearing us after our nominal LOS, I was still taking so Ken could zero in the antenna on the horizon. We had stopped hearing the downlink at that point. In that direction we are about 500' above the ocean with nothing but a steep slope down then water all the way to Spain. I'm wondering if there was some tropo on VHF that kept us in it for another minute or so, but the UHF fell off when it went over the water horizon.

Anyone ever experience anything like that?

We have certainly seen 6 meter tropo around the islands here this week - all the way up to Puerto Rico and Haiti.

Jim