E skip is usually in quick, out quick, fluctuating, moving from place to
place.
If it was tropo, sigs would be relatively steady.

Good catch.

I remember, catching somewhere overseas on my SCANNER during the summer, late
Aug. and it went on for a full 40 minutes. Rock solid- then slightly fade(but
could always hear them) then rock solid- continued that way the entire time.

It made a local village paper here. I was just monitoring the local law and a
few other freqs stretched out on the couch and all the sudden I started hearing
like Middle Eastern type talking.
I looked at the scanner to see the freq. and about flipped. So that would be
'tropo' -correct? ;-)

*BTW*It never happened again for that long on any local PD freq since. :-I

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