There was a brief opening today to Maderia Island with CS3BTM on 144481.0 making a brief appearance at 12:02 for 10 minutes or so. The beacon has developed a fault and is chirping badly, hope it gets fixed soon as it has been very useful this summer.
Looking through the recordings from 3rd July Es event I found this recording:
G4LOH with SV9CVY 144.285MHz 2893km
And a little while later when he was even stronger here:
Tim.