Best ever sporadic-E opening on 2m

I am already quite a long time QRV on 2m and I always keep an eye out for DX but this May 26, 2016 I will not soon forget. This day brought my best so far “exploitative” during a sporadic E opening  in which I operate ham radio and VHF DX in my 36 years. I was alarmed in the morning by the great android app EsSense by DXrobot and PE1NWL (picture is ©copyright by PE1NWL) app download ->  ( google play store link).  So I checked the DX cluster and saw there was a short opening on 2m to Russia but it was already gone. I observed the MUF all day using EsSense app and decided to go at the late afternoon to my VHF QTH. Switching on the radio I found a complete open magic  😀 6m band to East mainly Russia and Norway/Sweden with amazing 59+40 signals. There I decided to switch quick to the “more magic”  😉 2m band.

That has been the right decisions: on 144.300 MHz I heard “again” this typical ES bursts – parts of words – and than it began: UA3WM/KO72 signal came in after that  US4IEK/KN87. Knowing that the .300 is so what of crowded during a ES opening I decided to run a series of CQ on 144.310 and this was the right choice. Station after station was calling me and I had a kind of pile up I did not knew before. At all I made 27 contacts and the ODX was RZ6MB/LN17 with 2458km I thing this is the maximum rage what could be done in a single hop.

DATE	TIME	CALL	LOCATOR	TX	RX	QRB
26.05.2016	16:41	UA3WM	KO72QI	59	59	1921
26.05.2016	16:45	US4IEK	KN87UX	59	59	2119
26.05.2016	16:49	US6IEW	KN98FA	59	59	2173
26.05.2016	16:49	UR3EE	KN88DC	59	59	2013
26.05.2016	16:51	R6LC	LN07AU	59	59	2292
26.05.2016	16:52	UR5EKT	KN78ML	59	59	1915
26.05.2016	16:54	R3KBF	KO91PO	59	59	2188
26.05.2016	16:55	RA3QPY	KO91MU	59	59	2170
26.05.2016	16:58	RZ6AOJ	KN96DQ	59	59	2194
26.05.2016	16:59	RA3WJR	KO81CS	59	59	1975
26.05.2016	17:02	UT8AL	KO61WP	59	59	1814
26.05.2016	17:03	RZ6DD	LN04MX	59	59	2453
26.05.2016	17:04	UA2FT/6	KN95WH	59	59	2355
26.05.2016	17:05	UR5GKD	KN66RU	59	59	1832
26.05.2016	17:08	R7LB	LN17CU	59	59	2450
26.05.2016	17:09	RX6APY	KN95KG	59	59	2282
26.05.2016	17:09	US1FCH	KN66RU	59	59	1832
26.05.2016	17:14	UZ2HZ	KN69RA	59	59	1792
26.05.2016	17:15	UT8LN	KN89AW	59	59	1969
26.05.2016	17:16	UR3CTB	KN59RS	59	59	1642
26.05.2016	17:17	UR3CBC	KN69HB	59	59	1731
26.05.2016	17:17	R7LB	LN17CU	59	59	2450
26.05.2016	17:18	RZ6MB	LN17CM	59	59	2458
26.05.2016	17:20	UC6A	KN84PV	59	59	2178
26.05.2016	17:23	RA6LTD	LN08BA	59	59	2294
26.05.2016	17:40	UY5HF	KN66HP	59	59	1776
26.05.2016	17:40	UA6AKV	LN05	59	59	~2434

This is the map of my worked contacts during this opening. The map was created with a online map tool by DL4MFM (TNX MARIO) and can be found for free of use at his tool homepage “Adventure radio” LINK: phpQW Log-Analysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was recording most of the ES session and due to that I was able to correct the wrong call sign of RA6LT”G” to the right one RA6LTD. Sometimes it happens that you have the ears full of noise and crowd and picking up that way something wrong. By the way to record the session was a tip by my friend DL8SCQ – TNX Ebi.