Topband: Huge NA-EU opening last night

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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 at 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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