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160m long path

this morning    a rare opening to VK1KF  around 10:10 GMT  I was decoded 4 times in daylight 09 local time  the path must have been over southwest  
the dx is far more then 16477  possible 23500  km ? at least  + 500km  against the s-w reporters  not -500km as WSPR calculates the short path
Many EU wspr hams reported this opening

TimestampCallMHzSNRDriftGridPwrReporterRGridkmaz
 2014-02-08 10:20  G3RVX  1.838049  -19  -1  IO81uj  5  VK1KF  QF44mr  17116  63 
 2014-02-08 10:06  G3ZER  1.838020  -19  2  IO91sp  2  VK1KF  QF44mr  16989  65 
 2014-02-08 10:04  G8VDQ  1.838046  -19  0  IO91um  5  VK1KF  QF44mr  16985  65 
 2014-02-08 10:12  M0BOB  1.838030  -24  0  JO01co  0.5  VK1KF  QF44mr  16950  66 
 2014-02-08 09:58  G0PKT  1.838082  -23  0  JO01  0.2  VK1KF  QF44mr  16908  67 
 2014-02-08 07:40  IK1WVQ  1.838126  -28  0  JN44cb  0.5  VK1KF  QF44mr  16559  87 
 2014-02-08 10:00  PA0O  1.838182  -19  0  JO33hg  5  VK1KF  QF44mr  16477  71 
 2014-02-08 10:30  IZ2WMD  1.838107  -23  1  JN45sq  10  VK1KF  QF44mr  16443  86 
 2014-02-08 10:22  DB4YP  1.838026  -25  0  JO42ic  5  VK1KF  QF44mr  16381  75 
 2014-02-08 07:18  DL6NL  1.838058  -26  0  JO50cb  0.5  VK1KF  QF44mr  16330  79 
 2014-02-08 07:24  DL4MFC  1.838147  -15  0  JN58qb  5  VK1KF  QF44mr  16279  83 
 2014-02-08 07:46  DO4DAB  1.838085  -16  0  JN58sf  20  VK1KF  QF44mr  16264  83 
 2014-02-08 09:44  OZ7IT  1.838161  -25  -1  JO65df  5  VK1KF  QF44mr  16061  74 
 2014-02-08 08:44  LY2SS  1.838144  -25  0  KO05nq  10  VK1KF  QF44mr  15505  82 
 2014-02-08 07:12  YO7NE  1.838101  -15  -1  KN25ec  5  VK1KF  QF44mr  15285  97 
 2014-02-08 08:14  LZ1OI  1.838088  -25  -1  KN22id  5  VK1KF  QF44mr  15211  100 

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