Yup,
but for the USA FOC guys busily making points the band was deserted. If they were not chirping away anyone would have thought the band was closed, dead, finito. I was reading them at 559~579 , good clear signals, no QSB, NO QRN, no QRM.
(You want qrm? Try the QRP centre on 17m: pile up again... 
)OK, the wealthy can buy big signals, we know that: as yet money doesn't buy propagation.
If they were making the trip, the band must have been open. At least a bit.
I gotta snoop around 10m more often: may not be fashionable but......
Vic /slightly gobsmacked.
