True, George1 Those were excellent times for 160, 80 and 40m and worked well for me! There's a lot to be said for keeping an eye on the daylight map and "being where the competition isn''t! My 160 antenna has been down for a few years, but I had a very easy 160 QSO with K1N using the remnant of my 80m GP with only one radial!
Great job! Thanks! 73. Charlie, K4OTV -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of GeorgeWallner Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:28 PM To: jon jones; [email protected] Subject: Re: Topband: K1N 5,399 q's on 160 M Jon, I was one of the 160 m operators. NA callers were thick during the evening hours when they were competing with EU, making for some difficult pile-ups, but after midnight (and EU sunrise), often there were very few NA callers. George AA7JV On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:57:38 +0000 jon jones <[email protected]> wrote: > I consider VP6DX to be one of the top all time 160 meter DX >operations. Despite being thousands of miles from North America, they >worked many small stations including me (at the time had just moved so >a random wire thrown over the house and 100 watts). > > K1N had a great signal on 160, well over S-9 most nights >- but seemed to be having difficulty hearing callers. >Despite a full size inverted L, I was not QSO 5,400... > > - Jon N0JK > >> IMHO the operations at 5A7A, K5D, K1N, R1MVW, HK0NA, TS7C,and TX5K >>did an extremely good job and were able to take advantage of the >>proximity to major population areas. They had to have a good >>station and great operators, and had to be on the ground long enough >>to take make the large amount of Qs. >> >> But, and again IMHO, the operations at VP6DX, T32C, and ZL8X are >>OUTSTANDING because they had to overcome the big one; DISTANCE, for >>nearly 100% of their Qs. >> >> Now to separate those three just a bit. >> >> ZL8X did 4,206 Qs with a crew of 14 operators and 18 days of >>operation. >> >> T32C did 4,985 Qs with a crew of 41 operators and 32 days of >>operation. >> >> VP6DX did 6,671 Qs with a crew of 13 operators and 17 days of >>operation. >> 73 de Milt, N5IA > > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - >http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
