Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz - Thurs 4th Apr 2019

There was a pretty reasonable Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz on Thursday the 4th of April 2019.

Heard on FT8...
120745   3  0.0  549 ~  CQ DL1ABR JO52
120745  -2  0.5 1418 ~  OH3SX DO8OL R-02
121215  -8  0.2  527 ~  OH3QL PD0LK -11
122815   3  0.0 1591 ~  OH3QL DJ4BO JO43
123315  -2 -0.1 1350 ~  CQ DF1XG JO53
123900  -4 -0.3  858 ~  CQ SP3AGE JO83
125300   9 -0.1 1572 ~  CQ DO1LM JO54
131430  -9 -0.2 1628 ~  CQ EI7HDB IO62
132030 -16 -0.7  405 ~  CQ OZ7MAR JO65
135315   3 -0.2 1178 ~  CQ SM6MVE JO67
140945 -14 -0.2 2169 ~  CQ LA3VL JO59
175515 -12 -0.3 1277 ~  CQ DJ8QX JO31

These were some of the beacons heard on CW, a beacon using PI4 and one on SSB.
EI7GL 28298.0 SK7GH/B 12:50 04 Apr IO51TUJO77BF Sweden
EI7GL 28279.0 DB0UM/B 12:47 04 Apr IO51TUJO73CEFed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL-@ 28271.0 OZ7IGY 12:03 04 Apr PI4 -3 dB Q=94 Denmark
EI7GL 28270.8 OZ7IGY/B 11:57 04 Apr IO51TUJO55WM Denmark
EI7GL 28245.3 DB0TEN/B 11:33 04 Apr IO51TUJO42UV Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28434.0 DB6LY 11:16 04 Apr IO51TUJO51CB CQ Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28301.8 PI7ETE/B 11:10 04 Apr IO51TUJO22QD Netherlands
EI7GL 28277.4 DM0AAB/B 11:04 04 Apr IO51TUJO54GH Fed. Rep. of Germany

What struck me about the opening was again how important the DX cluster is. It's not enough to just hear FT8 signals and upload them to the PSKReporter website. Spots need to be put up on the DX Cluster to alert people and get people on the band.