Woke up around 4:00AM, couldn’t get back to sleep, so I went downstairs, turned on the radio and caught JH5RXS on 7.0945Mhz booming in. He’s Yukio Nishioka, in Japan and 5496 miles off. He was very, very strong: check out the recording. He kept flipping between working split and working on frequency.

Addendum: Apparently this weekend is the “All Asia” contest. Tuning further down the band, JA8NFV calling CQ among others. I couldn’t hear most of the hams he was chatting with, but his signal was great. Even further down I heard the JA1YPA contest station.