Hello Top Band enthusiasts.
This year we had extreme QRN for most of the contest, throughout
Australia, so when signals were workable, it was still almost impossible
to make qso's.
We only had good prop to JA and USA / VE / Europe was almost non
existent here.
Even though prop to JA was
Nope just fat fingered poster.
I have the call correct..he was very strong here in Ky.
Static crashes made him call me twice..
73 Fred
Busted callHis call is KH6LC.
73 Bill KH7XS/KH7B
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I made 138 contacts in two days with my little squirt gun station here.
The highlight for me was KH6LE my first KH6 contact on 160.. thanks Lloyd.
Few other highlights were TA1K P40AA LX7I C6AGU PJ4P…
Heard and tried to work some EU stations but could not be heard.
I was running 500 to 800
I did about 10 hours of the contest from DM12. Ended up with ~4000
points better than last year. A few 6s, a single 8, but no KH/KL or EU
stations. Worked pretty much all of VEs but one special was VO2AC,
best DX PJ2T, with a CO2 not too far behind. Was hoping to find D4C
but no luck. TX antenna
I agree that conditions were a long way from being ideal. Friday was less
ideal than Saturday. However, from here in Virginia I managed to work 20
sixes, 33 sevens and 60 fives and that with a very good beverage pointed at
Europe. If I heard a weak signal answering my CQ and I was having
de VE9AA:
I was only on this weekend for abt 6 hours, so am not an authority of what
happened on 160..by a long shot.
I did hear EU both evenings well before SS here and was able to eek out a
few west coast earlier than normal it seemed (with difficulty).
3 CA, 2 WA, 2 OR, 2 VE7, 2 VE6 etc.
- From: Larry via Topband
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 1:27 PM
To: ws6x@gmail.com
Cc: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: CQ160 Conditions
Good job. Unfortunately the conditions from the West coast were the
worst in the last 10 years.
Funny band.
Larry
n7dd
Sent by Larry
Jim,
You might mention that you are on the east coast, at least, that's was
qrz.com says.
Sure wondered how you worked 58 eu from w6 land. I haven't worked more than
a dozen EU from AZ in any recent 160m tests.
Ray,
N6VR
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 2:47 PM Larry via Topband Hi Rick,
>
> You are
Hi Rick,
You are correct. I am 425 miles from the ocean. As DF2 PY would like to say- I
am located in the far LEFT COAST.
Either way the conditions were really poor for me with only 5 European stations
in the log. I chased down EU spots that were normally extremely loud but
nothing heard. I
On 1/28/2019 12:11 PM, daraym...@iowatelecom.net wrote:
And not any better from the Midwest (Iowa). . . .both EU and Asia. 73. .
. Dave, W0FLS
When I worked you, I remember it took me several fills to get
your call, even though it's on my mental list of familiar calls.
That's not good
On 1/28/2019 11:27 AM, Larry via Topband wrote:
Good job. Unfortunately the conditions from the West coast were the worst in
the last 10 years.
Funny band.
Larry
n7dd
Hi Larry, you worked me in the first minutes of the contest
in full daylight, hi.
AFAIK, you are east of Salt Lake
And not any better from the Midwest (Iowa). . . .both EU and Asia.
73. . . Dave, W0FLS
-Original Message-
From: Larry via Topband
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 1:27 PM
To: ws6x@gmail.com
Cc: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: CQ160 Conditions
Good job. Unfortunately
Good job. Unfortunately the conditions from the West coast were the worst in
the last 10 years.
Funny band.
Larry
n7dd
Sent by Larry
On Jan 28, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Jim - WS6X wrote:
SOAPBOX: In my 36 years on TB, this was the best 160 weekend ever from my
little pistol station! Worked 58 EU
SOAPBOX: In my 36 years on TB, this was the best 160 weekend ever from my
little pistol station! Worked 58 EU in 26 DXCC, 5 AF in 5 DXCC, and 6 SA in
5 DXCC. The band was so wide open, as the propagation shifted, I had a
difficult time holding a frequency with full legal limit! Many West Coast
and
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