Topband: W6 to EU openings last night

[Michael Tope]

I tried calling CQ on CW at around midnight local (0800z) this morning 
and worked JE1CTM, G3PQA, G3OQT, and G3OLB in succession all with good 
signals into Southern California. This came after an absolute bounty of 
European QSOs on FT8, including a number of eastern European QSOs. 
HB9BIN was showing an FT8 "R" reading peaking well over +10 (+14 I 
think) and he stayed consistently over +5 for quite some time. He was so 
strong I kept wondering if it might be someone in the states pirating 
his call. There was, however, a lull earlier in the evening where the 
band appeared to shut down completely to Europe (no FT8 decodes 
whatsoever). I was really surprised that things opened back up the way 
they did.

73, Mike W4EF...............

On 1/5/2021 6:47 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
>
> On 1/4/2021 12:43 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
>>
>> I didn't come on last night . . . but I've been working across to Texas,
>> Colorado and Arizona over the past week or so.
>>
>> What sort of time were your QSOs Rick?  (will look out for you tonight)
>>
>> 73 Roger G3YRO
>>
>
> The openings were around 0400 to 0500 UTC.
> (Tuesday morning UTC, Monday night in CA)
> Last night I was listening a little earlier
> and heard W0FLS working a DH1 station, but
> nothing from the EU end was audible, not
> even waterfall tracks.
>
> 73
> Rick N6RK
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