Thanks, I was generally referring to the military. I’ve copied since BSA and was stationed at 2 USCG Radsta’s, one early morning at NRV we copied USCGC GLACIER NAAO down in the ice around Mcmurdo at barely a whisper. They had lost comms for a few days due to atmospherics. We took a few msgs before the sun came up.
USCG RMs were good ops back in the days of the steely eyed brass pounders.
Incidentally, one can see who is hearing one’s JS8 station by using this map; cooperating stations report back to a central server and display reported position:
https://www.pskreporter.info/pskmap.html
Just select the band, the callsign (optional), the mode (like “JS8”) etc and click “Go!”
A cursor “mouse-over” then displays additional info.