The Quadrantis Meteor Shower characterizes these days. My mind runs at 5 years ago. Year 2007 was at the beginning of the bottom of the Solar Cycle and 10 meters were completely dead. I was alone to manage the station and the other team members were sleeping after a heavy activity on low bands. I decided to listen on 10 m. I plugged the RG213 without any special intuition but I immediately began to listen some strange noise, typical of meteor shower. I started to call and immediately I got a strong pile-up for 2-3 hours. I was able to hear lovely signals of several call-sing but complete the QSO was another story. I was able to listen the first part of the call-signs, after that silence, than call-signs again, sometime just some letters and nothing more…sometime I had the time to complete the QSO.
It was my best pileup ever, the rate was not high but was unforgettable, and I was really surprised to work all Europe with the band in silence for days and days till that moment. QSOs became faster and faster, and I realized a good rhythm. At noon, I collected around 400 contacts on 10 and 12 meters. When the others went back, I remember their surprise. Nobody was supposing to have fun on high bands in January 2007. For a couple of days the situation comes again, but with a different intensity. Today I can assure that it was the best pileup I ever managed: it was difficult, it was crazy (because it was hard complete the QSO), but I enjoyed a lot of adrenaline during that meteor shower session.