Breakfast with France

A degree of tropospheric propagation is slowly building over the eastern Atlantic, as Spring continues to strengthen.

Testing the paths this morning at breakfast time, I was very happy to make a FT8 QSO (8-ele, ~90W, or an ERP of 5.6kW, allowing for computed ground gain) with Normandy, with amazing signal reports:

I doubt this was tropo.  It's more likely to have been a long-lasting meteor reflection, as the signal to and from Normandy was about 15-20dB lower a few minutes either side of the QSO.