Folks rather belatedly I have to announce a rather interesting contact made last Weds evening when it appears an uplift (or what was perhaps left of it that day) on 2M meant I could make a successful contact from a stationary position on the edge of the Solent at Lea-on-Solent. The contact was made on FM without use of a repeater and with a station operating from a club base somewhere near Wimborne Dorset (GX4RFR I believe from memory). The usual RST and pleasantries were exchanged and although weak signals both ways of course, we could both continue a sensible QSO. I was given a 4 and 4 and he was 3 to 4 and 4 (again from memory  – never prepared mobile when you went to be!!). Proves that when conditions prevail….. .