Dear Dave:
First off, I am writing to report hearing your signal on 40 meters on 23 Aug 2014 at 23:51z until about 23. 57z. I am just a shortwave monitor rather than a Ham, so forgive my contacting you directly. Normally I do not bother amatures with reception reports and just log them, but the extremely abusive guy who got onto the frequency made this a first for me as a monitor and I wanted to get confirmation from you if possible. So here is my report.
Report:
I logged you on LSB on a frequency of 7.187.60 MHz. It sounded as if the abusive caller may have been ever so slightly off your beat-frequency.
Equipment and Location:
Rx site was my shack in the suburbs outside Toronto, Canada. I monitored you using my Icom R-75 with a 60 foot outdoor randomwire tuned by an MFJ1020C ( actually an active antenna module that I modified into an active preselector by removing the whip and replacing the amplifier with a higher quality component.)
Reception Quality:
Absolutely terrific signal. You were peaking at 20 db over S9 with no notible fading and no significant adjacent signal interference (the annoying "interference" was the guy on your beat frequency, haha!). I needed no filtering, autonotch, NR, or other tricks to get a clean signal from you.