7P8C worked

After EI2KC placed a video from 7P8C Lesotho on his weblog I really became interested to work this DXpedition. The problem only is that my best chance is 10m or 12m at the end of the morning. I had 30 minutes time to go for it and with success. 7P8C was S7 on 12m and I worked them with 100W easily for a ATNO. But then, I received them well on 10m CW with about S8. I wanted to work them QRP for  the 100 DXCC in 100 days QRP challenge. And yes, after about 20 times calling I was definitely in the log. It brings my challenge on a total of 62 DXCC. It was really worth 30 minutes of DXing.

I read messages on the internet on several pages that propagation on 10m has to be poor due to sunactivity and magnetic fields from aurora. Strange I had the idea there is still good propagation. Just after I worked Lesotho I quickly listened to 11m propagation and heard stations from Thailand and Australia quite strong on the band. However on 10m SSB no activity. Conditions were good till hours after sunset, still decoded Argentina, Brazil and Chile on JT65.