[SADXA] HD8R continued

[Wes]

As I've written before I've been chasing these guys trying to work them on as 
many bands/modes (slots) as possible. They say on their website they will be 
active until Nov 7, although this might mean they leave tomorrow; I'm not sure. 
Regardless, tomorrow is air show day so I won't be on much.

I managed to get them on 80-meter SSB last night.  They were only S3 to S5 and 
the pileup was huge.  The east coast spots were saying they were S9+20 so I was 
about to give up.  They were calling for up 5 to 10 and when I saw the mob was 
all up ten, I went to up five and got them after about three repeats correcting 
my call.

I now have them on 26 slots out of the 33 they've been on.  Of those I've 
missed, only one, 20-meter RTTY, was a real possibility and even then they only 
made 500 Qs in one session.  I spoke to a 20-meter SSB op during one of their 
begging sessions and asked about more RTTY he said, "Maybe the next day" but 
that never happened.  Of the remainder they were off the wall, satellite, 
6-meters, 60-meters where they don't listen to the USA channels and 160 SSB 
where they made a total of 10 Qs.  No one has more than 29.

They have a leader board: http://www.dxfriends.com/hd8r/leaderboards.php  where 
for Mixed Mode I'm in the top 100 (#78) worldwide and #30 in North America. 
Lotsa fun but I'll be glad when it's over and I can get a full nights sleep.

Wes  N7WS