Sudan ST2AR - another all time new one in the log.
Worked this evening, 30m CW around 10.105MHz (split). I’d heard him loud and clear (with some QSB) earlier as I tuned up 15m in the SSB section of the band - he was running quite a pile-up and I called many times with no luck. He eventually moved to working exclusively west coast US stations and gradually faded into the noise. I resigned myself to not logging Sudan today and set about doing other things.
Having done those other things and then decided to see what there might be of interest on 30m and 40m I noticed ST2AR spotted on 30m CW on the DX clusters. I had a listen and he was good copy with me peaking a good solid S9 so I decided it was worth trying for a QSO. He was working split so I set my TX frequency about 500Hz up and sent my call.
I must have had a lucky guess because he came straight back with “IF 599″ so I sent my call again and he came back with “G0RIF 599″. I replied with a quick “599 tu” and that was it, another all time new one in the log! It just goes to show that sometimes you can call until blue in the face and not get the QSO when at other times you just get lucky in the pile-up and drop your call in exactly the right place, just where the DX happens to be listening. Of course it’s not always just luck…but that’s a whole other discussion.