Last year I almost finished a QSO with KH2L in Guam.
The contact was ruined by a LID with a HB9 call who began calling non-stop on top of the QSO preventing KH2L from hearing his report.
Seconds later the window of opportunity was gone and I have not heard Ed on 160 meters since.
Apparently the LID was cheating by listening on a remote Web based receiver, since he probably could not hear KH2L at all from his own station.
He did not account for the inevitable delays over the internet, causing his transmissions to be completely out of sync with what was really happening.
Although this could be chalked up to a beginners mistake – after all there are many moral aspects of DXing that need to be thought about and we all make mistakes, a cheater will always be found out eventually.
At the time I did not respond to the LID in any way, but perhaps I should have sent him an email asking for an explanation.
This morning, I saw KH2L spotted on my private DX cluster and immediately listened for him on the JA Beverage but he was quite weak.
The amplifier tripped and another 4 minute wait ensued but KH2L was still there and I was able to raise him for #140.
This is the first ever QSO between Guam and Iceland on 160 meters.
Of course the recording software did not work for some reason, I must usually start a new log file in Win-Test to solve that issue.
The contact has already been confirmed on LOTW.
While checking the LOTW award status, I discovered that I had a confirmation from SV5DKL in Rhodes, Dodecanese, which I had completely overlooked.
The DXCC-160 now stands at 141.
What a pleasure.
