What made this 15 meter opening so unusual is that I heard stations as close in as Birmingham consistently for at least 5 hours between about 3:00 and 8:00 PM. There was QSB, of course, but signals would be as high as 20 over. The last time I saw anything near that was on Memorial Day in 2004 when I talked with a station in Shreveport on 29 MHZ. That short distance opening didn't last but a half hour or so, which is usually how they work. As expected, 6 meters was pretty hot during the same time. I didn't hear them, but a small portion of east Texas experienced what will most likely be determined to be triple hop E skip into Japan on 6 meters. The Texas stations were somewhere between Dallas and the Louisiana line. Stations in Houston and along the gulf could not hear the JA stations, and I have not heard from anyone outside that small area of Texas who heard them. Who says the magic is gone? Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs