Tnx for the info. Wish someone else could put on 4U1ITU again but perhaps with a little notice. It's even rarer on the West coast.
Ray, N6VR On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 7:01 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Last night Dave, K1ZZ, who is in Geneva at the Conference Preparatory > Meeting in advance of this fall's WRC, was able to fire up 4U1ITU on CW. > 4U1ITU is still a much needed DXCC entity in North America. Obviously, > the CQWW 160 SSB contest was this weekend. There is considerable noise > on 160 meters at 4U1ITU as you can imagine. Not to help matters, once > the tram fires up in Geneva it adds to the hash noise on the band thus > the decision to focus on CW rather than struggle even harder with SSB in > the contest. > > Dave chose to operate low in the band, on 1811 KHz initially listening > up 1, in an effort to avoid as much of the contest traffic as possible. > Later in the night he shifted to listening down at 1805 KHz to avoid > some SSB splatter from EU a little higher up. > > Dave was able to give about 40 USA stations a new one, mostly from > around 0500z to 0630z when we had some decent propagation. > > During the evening there were around 10 stations that came on 1811, or > close enough to disrupt the ability to hear 4U1ITU, who were politely > asked to QSY and everyone did. As someone who needed 4U1ITU for a new > DXCC on 160, and on behalf of the others, I want to thank you all for > understanding and being accommodating. It was greatly appreciated. > > Thanks again. > > 73 Joel W5ZN > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
