Small experiment during eclipse

Photo made by my daughter

   We had an eclipse yesterday. The moon covered the sun for about 88% for a second. I've been watching but didn't find it spectacular at all. During the eclips I had my radio on 80m WSPR for a small experiment. It was interesting to see that during the eclipse the amount and distance of spots increased.

Some pictures made with the excellent WSPR watch app on my iphone.

Spot amount

Spot distance

You can easily see that around 18 UTC when the eclipse occured there is a peak. Then it goes down till after the sunset.