What is the Maximum Range I can Get?

In Amateur radio they often bounce signals off aircraft to increase range. It doesn’t last long but maybe it is happening here.
Maybe the signal bounce off a higher aircraft and back to your receiver.

There is also “Tropo” Tropospheric ducting. It can happen at 1Ghz frequencies.
google it or see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation for more info.