6m F2 “across the pond “?

Steve G1KQH and I remember the 1980s when 6m was open across the Atlantic by F2 and we were wondering if the MUF would go high enough to allow this to occur in this solar peak. 

I can recall hearing lots of USA 🇺🇸 stations on 6m SSB with just a low wire dipole. It was just like 10m. 

Last autumn there were plenty of F2 openings on 8m FT8 "across the pond" by F2 to the USA, Canada and the Caribbean areas.  As I recall these were almost daily.