Saudi Arabia -

Hamdi wades through a fair old pile up and I just wait until it thins out and the tonsils of South Europe are exhausted.

It's not a long haul to Saudi, but we don't get to hear the locals very often, when conditions are this favourable. Hamdi is a very smooth and efficient handler... until the cyk effect strikes...

(It seems G8 is a rare prefix on HF - a number of US stations hadn't got one before me! Maybe it's just unexpected?)

I just waited for the frenzy to subside,, and confess I was pleasantly surprised to get called

The infamously tricky g8cyk call sign trips another contact....

Fabulous signal from Saudi and many customers served....

Today was a good day for 20, Europe still working US at 22:30z