Greetings:

There is a person of considerable repute who said words to the effect that
"The thinking that bought us this far is not the thinking needed to get to
the solution of the situation that we now find ourselve in".

Let us have a QSO over the amount of time needed to see if our peers will
judge in the light of success and achievement if they choose to recognize
the effort as a valid QSO.

Speaking of EME, when I was at VE3ONT on 2 meters I chased a young lad in
France with 25W and an 8 element beam for well over 4 hours until I finally
got the last sequence from him.  We worked many others during the hours but
I kept going back to this lads frequency during my operating periods and he
was very smart, he kept trying and finally he made it.  I also remember on
10 GHz we spent many hours chasing one chap, each of us taking a run at him,
I think it was into the second day when we finally got him - but he kept
trying and stayed on one QRG and we new he was there and he responded every
time we kept calling him.

I am not sure that 24 hours is a valid limit for a QSO any more.

Larry
VA3LK