After an 30 minutes of trying last night on 20m to contact Pope Francis Special Event Station K3P,  we switched to 40m (7.070MHz) and made a successful and clear PSK31 QSO. KOO(Pat) was on the K3P end at the  HacDC hacker space in the Columbia Heights section of DC.

Purposefully finding someone on the air is not as easy as you think. I was beginning to wonder if I was too close(or not far enough away), but the propagation worked in our favor on 40m. In my initial search 40m for K3P I told contacts in other QSOs that I was trying to spot K3P; those operators then went on the hunt as well.

The result was a few “mini-pileups” as Pat called them into K3P. Happy to help get K3P and Pope Francis 😉 on the amateur radio map for the evening.