I was lucky enough to work him on the first call this morning on 40m CW. It took about 3 tries to get my call through the QRM, but I wasn't complaining considering I only had 100W and a vertical. I love CW. I guess it compensates for the 20+ hours of calling VP8SSI before I got through to them for the first time! Have fun in the pileups. 73 Mike N6MZ mikemr at microsoft.com