#174 Tonga A35JP

40m is a great band for gray line propagation.  For a half an hour between 7 and 730 EDT he was so weak for good copy.  At 0735 he became much clearer - of course this is with the attenuators on to bring down the static and improve the signal to noise ratio, He finally answered and copied my call and returned a thank you 599.  I was running the linear at about 1200 watts of TX power.