Realizing this opening isn't going to last much longer, I kept my eye on the band at sunset hoping for some dx. Excited to hear Steve VK4VN calling CQ and more excited that he came back to me. Deep QSB with copy varying from armchair s7 to very tough s4-5. He was running a KW-1 about 100W carrier into a 3-el SteppIR. I was running my ANAN-10 SDR at 300W carrier into a 3-el SteppIR (Albany NY) and posted some of his recorded signal at:
http://n1eu.com/vk4vn.mp373, Barry N1EU
Hopefully nobody tells you a propagation model doesn't support that contact
Congratulations. JA next.