NOTSOFANTASTIC......Not only in France...Flying a survey a/c up the Gulf of Aqaba en route from Luxor to Tel Aviv... was working Cairo and could here them beautifully but as I was approaching the Zofar beacon I knew they should be handing me over...FL230... they couldn't here me ! Had no onward freq. Now the Israelis can be a bit sensitive about people walking in without knocking so I told my tecnical chap down aft ( single pilot ops ) to watch out for an interceptor while I struggled with the chart to come up with a suitable freq. Almost immediately I glanced down and saw an F16 in a hurry... got a photo of him...dialed up a freq. spoke to a nice lady and was straight away interrupted by the driver of the F16.. actually there were 2 of them..he was a bit terse but we managed to get things sorted out ( after I'd done a 180 )...If I had a clue about computer technology I'd attempt to put the photo on here....