Topband: W6 to EU openings last night

[Larry Pace]

guys,
Conditions to EU have been excellent this past week from Arizona. Looks like the sunrise enhancement has finally returned. I have never seen EU with S9 plus 20 to 25 at this location in the past 30 years.
Let's hope for similar conditions for the commons contest.
n7dd

Sent by Larry

On Jan 5, 2021, at 10:32 AM, Michael Tope <W4EF at dellroy.com> wrote:

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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