EU in October (10/25)

For the second day in a row we had another very strong opening into Europe.  This one was even more intense and more steady at high signal levels.  HA2NP was the best one of the day for me today, worked him FT8, FT4, and CW.  He was in for well over 1 hour.  The opening began at 14:56 and ended at 16:26.

EU Beacons heard: F4ZKY/b, EI0SIX/b, PI7SIX/b

I worked quiet a few on FT4 @ 50.318 Mhz as well.

And on FT8

EI0SIX/b 50.005 and GB3MCB/b 50.443 etc...

Today I copied both EI0SIX/b IO63 [Ireland] about 519-529 peak, and GB3MCB/b [England] IO70 probably about the same level.

Around the same time I also copied F5ZMT/b, and F5ZKY/b as well as FX4SIX/b [France]

The French beacons were quite a bit stronger, some peaking to about 569 at times.

My Anan "Hermes" SDR which runs "Skimmer Server" on both 50.000-50.130 and 50.400-50.590 also picked up on two of the F5/b's.  That's a first for this location with automatically spotting EU CW beacons up in their "R1" beacon band.  

It was a really strong opening into mostly Western EU today.

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