Brunei Darussalam first ATNO 2025 worked

 I've been looking for V85 for over a year now. Had alerts in HamAlert but seldom saw him spotted and if so it was always on a time I was asleep. That was...till yesterday evening I got alerts he was spotted on 10m FT8. But we first had dinner and some chores to do. So I was on the radio too late, I didn't see Didier V85NPV on 10m FT8, only a few stations calling him. At a certain moment I got an alert from RBN he was spotted on 28.004 CW. Tuning there I heard a lot of stations calling and one station with a very distinctive CW keying who was S9+ here. Had a lot of problems to find out this was V85NPV Didier from Brunei Darussalam. Unfortunatly with my starting CW skills it was hard to understand what he was keying. You can hear this distinctive keying on one of his many videos on his youtube channel.

Anyway, I just tried to call him and to my surprise he came back to me. I was so overwhelmed I could just send a R TU 599 K report and probably he came back with his name or so, I could totally not decode it. The only thing I could decode was 73 dit dit. So I keyed R 73 dit dit. It might not be that good but given his signal I was sure it was a pirate station. So I wrote down the info and removed it from my (online) log. Didier has a live log online but I did not show up. However later that evening when I watched and listened to his CW on youtube I was not that sure anymore about any piracy, the CW I hear on youtube was the same I heard on the 10m contact. I checked the log again and....

How much more proof can you get. It is the first All Time New One of 2025 !