Yeah, you came in at probably the worst time possible. I hope you worked Peter the First in 2006, cuz I doubt anybody's going back there for at least another 15 years given the now-insane costs of travel to the region and the fact there are many other entities down there that still need to be re-activated after a long absence. Lots of interesting stuff has come up since 2005, of course, but a lot more as gone off the air or has been made far more difficult to activate due to environmental concerns. KH3 and KH1 and others. Also in 2006 Turkmenistan stopped issuing licenses and has since fell completely silent.

On the other hand, since you got on the air we've seen the reactivation of Lakshadweep and Andaman/Nicobar, two entities that had fallen off the DX map for decades, and in 2007 we had a pretty good activation of Scarborough Reef. In 2009 Desecheo came back after a very long absence as well.

I still think more has fallen off than has come back on, though...plus DXing in the era of Clublog, always-on clusters, the DXCC Challenge and the CQDX Marathon have made the hobby infinitely more difficult as well and have required bigger and more powerful stations to get through the QRM.

I was not able to hear them all that good on 160 meter band. So I decided to make my East Beverage longer . I could not get the ground rod down far enough due to rocky ground so I went about 150 feet further to where the creek has flooded a area and piled top soil up for last 100 years , I would guess. The ground rod taped down easy to 6 feet so I drove it in to 8feet  with the sledge hammer and hooked the Beverage up. I spent half the day clearing the trail and so forth.

At my sun set 5:25pm EST  on the 11th I could hear 5X8C and at around 6:00 PM local time they peaked to about S7. I heard a number of east coast stations work them but I could not at time.Maybe if I would have had a amp.

My Beverage is now 900 plus feet and I never lost their signal all that night . After sitting there for 4 hours their signal peaked to s3 or 5  and I do not think any one could hear them. There seemed to be many periods where no one called. I heard one USA station call and 5X8C sent their call many times trying to work them. The op never went back to them. Later when   I called and worked them it was for a new one on 160 as well as a new zone.

To say I was excited to work a new one on Top Band  puts it mildly.

So now I think I built the super Beverage. But last night they faded out around 7:30 and I really never heard them again. So the night I heard them for about 5 hours was mostly on account of propagation and not a new wonder Beverage .  

But after using a short 580 Beverage for 3 years I am pretty sure that this 900 foot Beverage is more quiet and has more narrow receive path. Only months of listening will I get a better idea of performance and not having  a shorter Beverage  to switch to for comparison I will never really know how much better this one is. Just guess work.  

Good luck and DXing to All

73 JIM