I operated the 1822 pass yesterday (6 May) and worked two stations, AA2HJ and K9QHO, on CW with about  100 W eirp.  Signals were almost as strong as FO-29 used to be and the apogee is about the same as AO-7.  A  good DX macine for those of us out of range of QO-100.

73 Ray W2RS