Peter Lemken wrote:
By now, every US-station will have worked XF4 on one mode/band, at least
that is my impression from seeing permanent questions as to 160, RTTY or PSK
activities.

Not here... not even heard. (someone spotted them last night on 160,
but when I turned on the rig the Spanish-accented operator on that
frequency turned out to be EA9IE!)

have rarely been active during these times. Heard them fine on 40 m on
Monday, but the US wall made it impossible to work them with anything less
than a Yagi and kilowatt combo.

Now you know how I feel about the YA and YI operationsgrin...

(actually I did manage to work YI9ZF on 17m three days ago. It wasn't
easy, the prop was just barely there. )

Luckily I don't need XF4, but it would be nice to get them on CW, and/or
some of the low bands.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com