17mカズでお会いできてよかった！

I am in danger of becoming blasé. After failing to work Japan for a year, two in two days? The wireless Gods are indeed benevolent just now.

Kazuhito Yoshimura has one of amateurs radio's "bellweather" stations that leads the way on HF.

I managed to get onto the call by random luck, before it had been spotted and fed to the piranhas.

That's the way to do it ... an array of enormous antennas
 

I apologise for not hearing the call sign phonetics for a few goes. I know how that feels....

A delightful first encounter with Hiroshi on 17m

A longer session (with silence removed) showing just how well the signal held up

Nice signal, no problems of any sort -
best of all, no shouty southern european party crashers!