Excellent signals on 6 MHz in mid-afternoon

On Wednesday afternoon July 13 2011 I was in the Hamer Arboretum, Olinda,
some 40 km east of central Melbourne.

It was a bitterly cold overcast bleak day - I set up the Eton E5 and a
3 m antenna at the junction of Silvan and Mathias Rds, just down from the
Woolrich Lookout.

I was astonished at the excellent signals between 0500 and 0530 on 6
MHz, with may longpath signals from Europe, Africa and Europe, and
shortpath from the Americas.

This is my report:

5890 USA WWCR English
5910 COLOMBIA Alcaravan Radio, Spanish
WWCR English
5950 USA WYFR English
5955 PORTUGAL RN via Sines, Dutch
5965 COSTA RICA REE Spanish
" VATICAN VR-Santa Maria di Galeria, English
5975 ENGLAND NHK via Rampisham, English
6010 CUBA RHC English
6015 AUSTRIA RA via Moosbrun Dutch
6020 CANADA CRI Sackville English
6030 USA R. Marti, Greenville Spanish
6055 SPAIN REE Spanish
6080 SAO TOME VOA English
6090 ANGUILLA Carib. Beacon, English
6110 CANADA NHK Sackville English
6125 VATICAN RN via Santa Maria di Galeria, Dutch
6150 CUBA RHC English
6155 AUSTRIA ORF Moosbrun German
6165 N. Antilles RN Bonaire Du
6175 CANADA VOV via Sackville Vietnamese

Regards from Melbourne!

Bob Padula