[SADXA] Never give up

[Wes]

I wanted to be on 80-meters last night before D60AE's sunrise.  Unfortunately, 
Honey-do grocery shopping got me home later than I wanted.  I guess it didn't 
matter because I could just barely tell they were there in the static crashes at 
about 0200Z.  Occasionally they would pop out of the noise so I called a few 
times.  Of course there was competition, so my split frequency was a crapshoot.

At 0225 I thought we made a contact but a helpful tuner on his frequency made it 
uncertain.  So at 0236, just before his sunrise, the hoped for peak showed up 
and I called him again.  He seemed to have a hard time with my call so I called 
several times and gave reports too.  We probably made multiple QSOs but I wasn't 
chancing it.

Pretty remarkable considering that this is a 10,280 mile path and my antenna is 
an inverted-vee with the apex at 45 feet and I run only 500W.  Conventional 
wisdom says that this antenna is a cloudwarmer and you can't possibly work long 
distance DX with it.

Wes  N7WS