Something just happened that I would have thought impossible.
Home qth is coastal VA. I just caught IW9HII transmitting out of Sicily on 6m. He had a strong signal, but I was only running barefoot on a Hexbeam. I tried to grab his attention for a couple of minutes, but he couldn't hear me, so I gave up and turned the antenna south to try for the Caribbean. And IW9HII's signal improved. I sat in my chair for a couple of minutes, thinking variations of "Naw, no way." Then I shrugged, spun the rotator to 220, and called him. He got right back to me with a fairly strong signal report.
What the heck? Flux is 147 right now, and while that's good I wouldn't think it nearly enough for long path propagation on 6. Anyone else having such weird luck right now?
Maybe it's just magic. Or a wormhole in the atmosphere. I'm still pretty shocked.