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Re: Topband: Huge NA-EU opening last night

To: Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Huge NA-EU opening last night
From: Art Snapper <art@nk8x.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:15:19 -0500
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It was nice. There was a bit of flutter on the more northerly stations.
Perhaps it is related to the recent solar storm.

73
Art NK8X
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a huge NA-EU 160M opening last night and I was surprised to work
> 50 Europeans on one night, outside a contest. I'm sure that 160M veterans
> can tell me of working 1000 on a good night, but this was great for me. I'm
> surprised there were that many Europeans awake before their dawn! Including
> Russians and Ukranians too.
>
> It was a little different than the "Belgium-specific" opening I found a few
> months ago, this one seems to have been all across Europe. There was a good
> hour when the DL's, ON's, OK's were loud like regional stations on 80M and
> there were a couple loud Ukranians too.
>
> Reversebeacon screenshot:  http://www.trailing-edge.com/DEC31-opening.png
>
> Tim N3QE
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