Topband: M flare...

[Robert Briggs]

What ever is happening I have had some excellent sunrise DX into Europe 
these past 2 weeks or so....Prior to Christmas I was working the routine 
half dozen or so EU contacts then on January 8th the band went 
beserk...Prior to sunrise my first cq produced Marko OH3XR with our 
daily routine contact at 18:52Z tthen I worked a pileup through sunrise, 
1923Z to the last contact at 19:47Z, 31 contacts picked from that very 
busy pileup...Since then Dx has been fairly good to excellent with large 
numbers of contacts most days...Yesterday 20th I ran 21 stations, all 
good signals, average 579 without a pile up....Now the interesting thing 
this last week has been the footprint has been mainly the UK and 
Northwestern Europe with very few Russian stations..I wonder if this 
ties in with any of the AU observations?....My EU sunrise total since 
Nov now totals 480 contacts to this morning ....

A footnote...I finally had the pleasure of a contact with Thor TF4M on 
the 17th January..This has been my goal these past 2 EU seasons...Thank 
you Thor...I now have set my sights on working Greenland...These are the 
ultimate in Topband Dxing for me..

73 all....de VK3ZL..