I did make an interesting contact this evening - W5JAY on 80 meters!
One other observation - I've worked a lot of US stations on FT8. I call DX and when I finish, or sometimes before, I get a little pile of US stations calling me. I couldn't figure it out, but I guess people are looking everyone up on the VOTA page and seeing that I'm worth 100 points. I usually work a few if it doesn't interfere with dX'ing.
Nice to work you, Jay. I'm glad Kathy lets you use the rig occasionally :)
73,
Dennis/RZ