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Looking at the PSKreporter maps, most Vara stations are still strongly focussing on the 20m HF band.

Sure, 20m is a good band but hey, there is good propagation on higher bands too. Often, the optimum band is not 20m.

I have very nearly daily contact to US stations on 10m with good signals.

Check out

https://www.voacap.com/hf/

select your QTH (callsign prefix) area and the DX (callsign prefix) location of interest and hit the "Band by band" option (green keys below map). It takes a moment and you get this:

Lot's of scope on the higher bands. Just get the timing right and it works. I dwell on 10m daily from about 22:00 Z to 04:00Z usually. Then often 15m and 17m.

Go higher !

73

Dieter, VK3FFB