Rich, you comment on the "combat zone" aspect of ARRL 160M in past years and how it's not so bad this year.
I agree that past couple years it was brutal but last night, not so bad. I don't feel activity was down, just maybe a little bit more rationally spread out. DX window wasn't perfectly respected but did have some useful sparseness, and the DX certainly did not feel confined to that window either. I had some hugely successful runs high in the band (1850-1860), others were running up there plus a little more, and we were not chased away by the usual phone nets reserving "their frequency". I think reduced QRM from phone nets, allowing a busy CW night to have just a little breathing room, was the big improvement. Tim N3QE On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/4/2015 9:38 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > >> I'm still working on this, and need a handful of states. They are CT, >> VT, WV, KY, SC, andMS. I'm 70 miles S of San Francisco, on the coast. >> >> The best time to make these QSOs has been in the 90 or so minutes before >> local sunrise at the east coast end, and for perhaps 30-45 minutes after >> local sunrise. If you're calling CQ, I'll find you and do my best to >> make you hear me. :) >> >> Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC >> > > Last night, I worked several CT, KY, and SC, and at least 1 MS. > However, these were before 0730Z. I too got up at 1130Z and I > think I only worked KY on your list this morning. OTOH, JA's > were booming in this morning, especially JA3YBK who can be > counted on to be the strongest JA, yet I didn't hear him > CQ'ing on 1811 as usual. He called me. > > Activity seemed to be down, so I didn't have a lot of trouble > getting a run frequency (even running low power) in the > "dime quarter" band (1810-1825) where JA's hang out. In the > past, this has virtually been a combat zone. > > Still need (for the contest) WV and VT (always tough to find > and work from here). > > Rick N6RK > > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
