144MHz tropo to JO51

Rounded off an interesting day, propagation wise at around 2130z last night by the usual check around the 2m beacons. GB3VHF and F5XAM were both well above average. I dropped back to 144.3, the calling frequency, to hear the tail end of someone calling CQ DX from JO51.

That sounds like DX to me, so I replied and was delighted to work DF0CI in JO51CH. Matti was running full power to 4 antennas, so it was great that he was able to hear me.

So that's the best DX on 2m with solar power, so far!