Azores beacon CU8DUB

If you'd checked the Hepburn VHF Tropo forecast on the 15th May you would have seen the extended ducting from the UK out into the Atlantic.
This enabled the reception of the Azores beacon CU8DUB on 144.420MHz here in North Wiltshire at a distance of 2600km which is half way to North America.

Distance between IO81WM & HM49KL is 2601.68 km (1616.684 miles)

CU8DUB RECEIVED IN IO81WM

The signal is not strong but I'm some way inland in that direction unlike the people in Cornwall  and on the south coast that also reported it and had contacts.

The other beacons are GB3VHF (Kent) at the top, just beneath CU8DUB is a faint trace from ON0VHF and a stronger French one at the bottom.  The vertical lines are the farmers electric fence!