I had a QSO with a station in Hokkaido Island (JA8), perhaps for the first time. It was on the 30m band in the evening local time.
My multi-band dipole antenna sits on a south-facing balcony, so I had the impression that I rarely hear JA8 stations.
I usually try QRP operations around 2 watts with domestic stations, but this was something so special for me to get an all band new station, and I was tempted by an evil spirit and QROed to 50 watts to be fully copied after one QRZ?.