Some 80m DX

 Despite contacting Japan on 160m and 40m I never had a QSO on 80m. Till today that is...

I tried very hard for over a hour but none from Japan was getting back to my call. Not to my CQ and not when I tried to call the Japanese stations I received. Till JA5EXW finally came back.

When searching in his log I see I worked him on 160m and 6m as well.

Working DX on 80m FT8 is not easy on the usual 3573KHz. It is simply too crowded. And unfortunately some stations really don't know what I mean when calling CQ JA. Really, I had to crawl trough numerous european contacts before I could call CQ JA again and even when in QSO with JA5EXW there was someone calling on my TX frequency. I really don't know why?

I like 60m much more as a ultimate DX band. At least you can find a empty spot in the waterfall which is almost impossible on the "normal" bands like 80,40 and 20m. However, I'll do my best to pick some more DX on 80m these days since at this moment I don't see much interesting DX on 60m although I keep an eye on the DX cluster and monitor once and a while...