I've decided to put my oar in the water regarding the comments on
ARRL 160. I didn't operate this year but it is my favorite 160
contest and the only one I would seriously enter.
Why? Because mostly it does end up being a domestic contest and I
have some chance of being competitive with my
I figured that QRM was a HUGE problem on the east side of the country, Paul,
and the major reason why they couldn't hear my peanut whistle signal!!
I agree that the Top Band contests during December are a bit much BUT I'm in
them 'cuz I need about 10 states for QRP WAS on 160 - mostly east
I didn't realize that 160 and all its challenges to get on this band
with a decent xmit and receive antennas was the birthplace of new
contesters.
On 12/4/11 8:39 AM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote:
On 12/4/2011 11:09 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
Rather than decry the format of the event, why not celebrate
On the point of being zero-beat with the station you're calling... you
almost need to run CW Skimmer for that here. I called a station - exactly
zero beat... and a station just below me was answering back.
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From: topband-boun...@contesting.com
On 2011-12-04, at 10:51 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
I didn't realize that 160 and all its challenges to get on this band
with a decent xmit and receive antennas was the birthplace of new
contesters.
hi Mike,
Well it certainly was for me!
Topband and---believe it, or not---Field Day
On 4 December Mike wrote:
MAR section includes NB (VE9), NS (VE1) and VY2 (PEI).sometimes MAR even
included VO1 and VO2 !!! We have to compete against hams in three provinces for
most ARRL contests. Does RI get lumped in with EMA and CT? - Nope! Does
Montana get lumped in with Wyoming and
Low ham population and a small geographical area Mike.
You, or anyone else aint gonna change the ARRL for any reason...its a
dictatorship.
Carl
KM1H
- Original Message -
From: Mike Coreen Smith ve...@nbnet.nb.ca
To: Topband Topband@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011
Very disappointing indeed, although always nice to work the east coast,
ME, WNY, VA, MAR (PEI) etc from the wet coast. And CE3 was a nice one.
For the propagation experts out there did the poor conditions reflect
the increasing solar flux as the new cycle gets going? Or is it just one
of those
Yes, But,
From southeast New Mexico, on my Saturday AM, I found that
JA stations were the loudest I have ever heard any of them in any
contest for the past 24 years. I was CQing and they answered
me--loud. Sunday morning, fewer JA's and not quite as loud. Best DX
to the NE was a
You may be partially right, but we have 35 members in the Maritime Contest
Club and another 4 or 5 active or semi active stations that contest, that
are NOT part of the club. Granted , not everyone is on for every contest,
but as I said before, for any of the popular contests, we are much more
Bang on zero beat IS a problem. I am noticing more and more of that as (I
guess) more and more guys rely on SPOTTING SOFTWARE! Agh! It doesn't
make any sense to call exactly zero beat.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, using directional receive only antennas
seems to be a problem. Maybe I
hi reflectees !
This years ARRL160 did not yield the propagation we had last year. There
was an unpenetrable curtain from VE2 thru the great plains down to the
rocky mountain division. At least true from my 50deg north location. No
w7 or w6 stns heard, no western W0s either. The westernmost
Many of the stations had very clicky signals making it almost impossible
to hear anything between them. As this prevents someone getting close to
them and not having any reason to generate a clean signal, this problem
will persist.
73, Roger
On 12/4/2011 12:02 PM, Brian_ve7jkz wrote:
I was
Bang on zero beat IS a problem. I am noticing more
and more of that as (Iguess) more and more guys rely
on SPOTTING SOFTWARE! Agh! It doesn't make any
sense to call exactly zero beat.
Huh? As I stated earlier, out here with the QRM and crowding if you
are not darn close to zero beat
Dead on Zero Beat is OK if there is only one station ZB. Same is true is there
is only one station up or down X number of hertz. The problem with newer
transceivers and the skimmers is that several answer ZB and that last filter,
the old ear, can't separate them when the signals are similar in
How about W7IJ who was 10 kc up and I had a drifty 519 signal off freq both
days...Mark W7MEM
-- Original Message --
From: Roger D Johnson n...@roadrunner.com
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 conditions
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:36:21 -0500
Many of the
On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:52 AM, KM1H wrote:
Low ham population and a small geographical area Mike.
You, or anyone else aint gonna change the ARRL for any reason...its a
dictatorship.
The origin of the multipliers for the ARRL 160 contest is in the ARRL Field
Organization structure at the
Concur with Roger, N1RJ. Saturday morning a zero a few hundred miles
away in Colorado started CQing less than 250 Hz above my run QRG.
I use a K3 and this is normally no problem but his sig had severe
clicks. I told him he had bad clicks and asked him to go from full
to semi-breakin. I've found
I must admit that I have given up understanding how and why so many are
calling so far from the zero beat.
During this 160 ARRL and more generally all CW contests, at several
instances I answered to the guy two times without knowing exactly which one
was for me and which one for my running
Please change my email address from wb5oxq@ to wb5ox...@grandecom.net
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I got on early Sunday morning around 1000 utc after getting home from work.
Added
another 28 QSOs using the gutter antenna. Conditions better to the east coast
with K8PO ME
and VE2OJ PQ worked. Numerous W2s and 3s loud around 1100 utc. Noise level high
on it
and probably more potential
I agree 100%,
I run alot.. but im FAR FAR from big.. my rule of thumbs is... Calling CQ
TEST.. leave enough room between CQ's to hear your own call 2x in a row
10wpm LESS that your CQ'ing at.. I generally cq @ 28 WPM as it says on the
N1MM program.. and I had the delay @ about 8 Seconds. Here is
since I have a very weak signal (24w ERP from a 7' tall vertical)
when I get ask for a repeat of my call
I send it again at the original speed
but 90% of the time I end up having to repeat more than once
and them may even have to reduce my speed to ~13wpm
then I finally have my call copied
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