July 07. 2003 - Short and spotty twice | Comments/reports/log-sheets/audios to DK5YA

50 MHz was dead in Europe in the morning. No sigs from Hams, nothing on TV. Later in the morning MUF was rising very quick in the north-west Mediterranean area and at 09:49 short burst from I8 into F and EA. Few minutes later EA1 and F made I8 from IM88. Than we had a short break for some 20 minutes while the cloud was moving slowly north-west. MUF was up again and short and spotty openings took place from CT and EA into DL, HB9, OE and I.
Later in the afternoon another cloud was active in the east (again above Romania) for very short 144 opening from S5 and YU into UA6, just for a few minutes. That time MUF was also pretty high above DL bringing French BC into the Baltic region up to 108 MHZ while OIRT-TV #5 was booming in DL at 94 MHz.
Involved DXCC: DL, HB9, OE, I, F, EA, CT

Logs and reports:
DF1CF | DH3IAJ/m | DK1FUN | EA7RM | HB9DFG | IN3KLQ | IZ8DWL |

DF1CF, JN57fp
10:33 EA7GBG 59 59 IM67QI
10:35 EA7BEL 59 55 IM77AB

DH3IAJ/m, JN48ff
10:42 EA7BEL IM77AB 55 hrd

DK1FUN, JN49mr
EA7RM 11:07UTC 59 IM87CS--JN49MR
wkd 100Watt 11 Elem. Tonna

EA7RM, IM87cs
11:08 DK1FUN JN49MR 59 59 SSB 1677
11:11 DG2GEP JN48DL 55 55 SSB 1538
 

HB9DFG, JN37sm
10.39 EA7BEL IM77ab 59 59 1603km
Little later I also heard CT1DYX calling CQ Sporadic on .300 but he disappeared in the noise after 3 seconds

IN3KLQ, JN56rg
1043 EA7BEL HRD IM77AB good signal (S7-8) but too much
stations called it at the same!
1116 CT1DYX 59/59 IN51
My Rig: H.M. XTRV 144<>28 + PA 150 W 16 el. Yagi

IZ8DWL, JM88br
09.43 EA1BFZ IN81SS 59 59 SSB 1609
09.45 EA1LZ IN82DI 59 59 SSB 1719
09.47 EA1DKV IN53TH 59 59 SSB 2109
09.48 F5HGO 59 59 SSB
09.56 EA1DDO IN53UI 59 59 SSB 2102
 

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