Back in the days when it seemed that almost everyone were getting vanity call letters, one of the stations local to St. Louis obtained a K1** call. When the DX station went by the numbers he was calling with the 1s not the 9s or 0s.
Price W0RI On Thursday, February 5, 2015 6:44 AM, Fortra <for...@siol.net> wrote: Lou, is that what you have said, an argument ? Let us wait a week, and then we will judge... 73's Nermin S58DX ----- Original Message ----- From: "KE1F Lou" <lmecs...@cfl.rr.com> To: <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 12:51 PM Subject: Re: Topband: Out-of-Turn Callers To us EP6T was European QSO Party. GL and 73 Lou KE1F On 2/5/2015 1:51 AM, Jan Erik Holm wrote: > Sorry if I´m a PITA right now but why even bother to > have this debate about K1N on 160, it´s not even DX > to NA, like a local station almost. > > Jeez how difficult can it be from the US, anybody with > 100W and a wet noodle for an antenna can work it. On > 80 I´m sure at least from the east coast they can be > worked all day long. > > I don´t know about 160 since so far they haven´t been > stronger then S2 due to geo mag storm and poor propagation > 66 degs north where I´m at but so far I´m very disappointed > in their 80m operation, they never listen for EU or any other > area, they work 99,5% NA, it is the USA/Canadian QSO party. > I would have expected a totally different action by that > bunch of operators, I´m very very sad and sorry to see > where it all has went to. > > Now this might not be the case on 160, if I´m lucky propagation > might get better and I might get a shot at it. > > 73 Jim SM2EKM > ------------------------------------ > On 2015-02-04 01:15, Hardy Landskov wrote: >> I got up last night for my nightly bathroom ritual and just for grins >> listened to 160. They were calling CQ and I worked them on 2 calls. Not >> many trying to get them. This was 1035Z. >> N7RT >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" >> <rich...@karlquist.com> >> To: <ws6x....@gmail.com>; <topband@contesting.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 4:51 PM >> Subject: Re: Topband: Out-of-Turn Callers >> >> >>> Why not call around 0700Z after the >>> band closes to EU and before it opens >>> to JA? A bunch of us in CA got them >>> in the log last night fairly easily. >>> >>> Rick N6RK >>> _________________ > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband