Topband: Brief EU open from SW US

[Richard McLachlan]

Hello All

I have just come back on to Top Band after about 40 years QRT so very pleased to be getting some contacts. I am still coming up to speed with all the operating changes since I last was active in pre Internet days. I still have to sort out my RX antennas etc but should be back next season properly set up.

73

Richard G3OQT

> On 21 Apr 2019, at 02:27, VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> Now two days old due to mail bounce.
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>> 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.
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>> A side note. 40m was popping with S9 plus EU during this time period.
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>> 73
>> 
>> Bob, W7RH
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