I received the following response from Bob Parkes G3REP:
>your comments re band opening to A92ZE confirms what I found from 4S7 and
>posted some years ago that it appears more like midnight at midpoint of the
>path than sunrise peak when you get near the equator. I mentioned this to
>Dietmer DL3DXX and confirmed this as well from his S21XX expedition.
I checked this out with my sunset (2222 UTC) and A9 sunrise (0334).
The midpoint is 0058 which is close to when Gus' signal peaked here!
73, Bill W4ZV
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