Worked W5ESE on 1015 last night on 160! Scott was running 5 watts. If it
hadn't been for the building QRN, I'd have copied him solid. Not to mention
DXers who ignored us and QRMed us as well. Until recently 1800-1820 was
fairly free from DXing. Some of the newbies are beginning to remind me of
the RTTY bunch on the higher bands, especially 40. "Keep outta 'digital'
territory, but the whole band is ours during a RTTY contest!" QRP can be
very challenging, especially on 160. This makes it fun, but the DXers are
beginning to run off the ragchewers, what few of them are left. SSB splits
have ruined 40 CW during SSB contests involving DX stations, and with 80 cut
down to 100 khz. on CW, I'm afriad the same thing will happen there soon.
Hope to meet some of you "just plain QSO" guys on 160 one evening on CW.
Ain't many of that kind of operator left.
72/73,
Sandy W5TVW
K1 s/n 1178 from 160-15 meters
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Elecraft List" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 160m activity?
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:48:48 -0600, Randy Moore wrote:
I only hear people working DX. All the CQs are
"CQ DX" and so far no one has answered my CQs.
Sadly, that's very much the nature of 160. Some call it "the
gentlemen's band." I think a better name for it is "the DX snobs
band." I'm running a KW to a decent antenna, and I call CQ a lot
(not CQ DX). I have no problem working across the country (or even
across the Pacific) during a contest, but getting someone to answer
a CQ for a casual contact can be tough.
Another reality, however, is that 160 is a tough place to work QRP.
Two reasons. Noise levels are high, and propagation is challenging.
My good friend and neighbor, N6WG (in Silicon Valley) plugs away at
contesting with his K2, including all the 160 contests. He has great
fun with it, but only because he takes his antenna system very
seriously. One of the good reasons for running power on 160 is to
get over the high noise levels. I've got an S1 noise level most of
the time. It's not uncommon for me to read a guy 579, but he can't
read me, because his noise level is S8.
73,
Jim Brown K9YC
Santa Cruz, CA
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