Thank you, that was very interesting! In particular how reflections caused you trouble, whereas in the ham world (also mostly HF) the same are desirable becaus

Thank you, that was very interesting! In particular how reflections caused you trouble, whereas in the ham world (also mostly HF) the same are desirable because anything that increases range is generally seen as good (we do use directional antennas to narrow it down). Different world. And so in the end, you did learn to recognize entire words (callsigns) at once :-)