Topband: Brief EU open from SW US

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Hi

Today is a good qso with VE3EJ (02:13).
This is my record for April. I have a connection with North America on 
April 21st. Prior to this, the extreme connection of April was
Details	UY0ZG	N4IS	2007-04-14 03:01:00	160M	CW	1.80000	UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA
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Also today heard the signals K4NA, VA3RAC, VE9ML.

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VE6WZ_Steve писал 2019-04-21 04:27:
> Hi Bob, and all,
> 
> Yes Bob, here also two nights ago G3PQA and F5NZ were both worked  in
> VE6 via the direct polar path…no skew here.
> Last night the band was in great shape again with G4UFK, ON7PQ, G3OQT
> and F5NTV all making it across the pole.
> For me the band opened up around EU  greyline beginning around 0400z.
> The QSB was long and very deep with the signals disappearing
> completely for a long time with only very short peaks of Q5 copy.
> The band is still very much alive!
> Here is John, G3PQA CQing two nights ago:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SxJymY4gozZGdcO26L9dhOIGlXmGjDGH/view?usp=sharing
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SxJymY4gozZGdcO26L9dhOIGlXmGjDGH/view?usp=sharing>
> And this is Richard G3OGT calling CQ last night:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ywxw_04oE6x_YQ5RNY_zuhqNz57lT9ZN/view?usp=sharing
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ywxw_04oE6x_YQ5RNY_zuhqNz57lT9ZN/view?usp=sharing>
> 
> de steve ve6wz
> 
>> On Apr 20, 2019, at 6:18 PM, W7RH <midnight18 at cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Now two days old due to mail bounce.
>> 
>> Last evening a brief pre-greyline opening occurred to western Europe 
>> on 160m from the SW. I was able to work G3PQA at 03:33 UTC. This late 
>> in the season makes this type of contact rare. Propagation at the time 
>> favored southern east coast. At that time solar wind was below 
>> 250m/sec and proton density was less than 2cm squared.
>> 
>> A side note. 40m was popping with S9 plus EU during this time period.
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Bob, W7RH
>> 
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