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Re: Topband: Huge NA-EU opening last night

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Subject: Re: Topband: Huge NA-EU opening last night
From: K4OWR <k2owr@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:19:49 -0500
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:::: What time was this opening to EU on 160???
BILL

On 12/31/2015 10:21 AM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
Hello Tim

I am a  "Johnny Novice" on Top Band;  my best was 25 EU DX contacts the
night before last night.   That was the first time I was able to call CQ
and have EU stations answer me!   Last night I worked a few EU, but was
playing with my EWE antenna.

TB is indeed fun, and very challenging (at least for me!)

73 Mark K3MSB

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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