Topband: Some trans-polar life

[VE6WZ_Steve]

Last night 160m opened up over the pole into Europe with some very good signals.
C92RU was making it into VE6 at around 0320UT with a fair signal, but I had no luck breaking the pileup.

At 0320 SM5EDX made it into the log. 
Between 0400 and 0500z I logged IK7JTF, ON7PQ, EA6BF, F8IHE, G4UFK and G4OJY.

Here is IK7JTF signal during our QSO: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RBit0G9AwsVlQTdj7h8V2liNVBOsXy_y/view?usp=sharing <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RBit0G9AwsVlQTdj7h8V2liNVBOsXy_y/view?usp=sharing>
The best was from Franck F8IHE with an outstanding signal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qCA9DSA-WCxVc-3Pt0XdFyPeJbZrF5uj/view?usp=sharing <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qCA9DSA-WCxVc-3Pt0XdFyPeJbZrF5uj/view?usp=sharing>

I was surprised that there was NO other west coast NA on the band at all. (NA5G from LA was QRV for a while)  F8IHE continued to CQ for 30 min with a very FB signal but no one called him.
Here was how his CQ sounded at around 0500z:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kXIRQvVi-k3ikyLuFawOTYVWKO9oUlsQ/view?usp=sharing <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kXIRQvVi-k3ikyLuFawOTYVWKO9oUlsQ/view?usp=sharing>

It was nice to see some life on the low bands in between this relentless solar attack on our ionosphere, but I fear it may be short lived as these earth directed blasts seem to be recurring every week or so with little time for things to cool off before the next 27 day rotation.

73, de steve ve6wz