Guy you only have to look at the past results for CQ160 to know that this year's conditions were not anywhere near as good as 2009. Then I worked around 700 US stations including all States and 57 St/Prov. Although last weekend weren't by the recent past bad, and hopefully just a stepping stone to better in the future. 73 Clive GM3POI
-----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy Olinger K2AV Sent: 29 January 2020 03:11 To: Roger Kennedy Cc: TopBand List Subject: Re: Topband: CQ WW Contest Hi Roger, Just want to be sure we are both talking about the weekend of 25, 26 January, 2020, the weekend of the 2020 CQ 160 CW contest. If so, I must register my decidedly firm impression that was the best 160 meter weekend of my lifetime, what has to be a counterpoint of the amazing 1958 sunspot maximum. In the contest I worked 1349 stations including 339 10 pointers (almost all the 10 pointers were European), let's just say 300+ European stations. In all of that I worked a 160 meter worked all states (48 CONUS + AK & HI), plus 9 Canadian provinces, 78 countries ("country" per the contest rules). That was a claimed score from the southeast USA (decidedly not the EU-advantaged northeast US) of 752,780. It was, by an enormous margin, my personal lifetime best for any 160 meter contest. The antenna did work very well, but, seriously, could not possibly have accounted for that bump up, nor for sure could my personal operating skills. Just think we need to leave room for the idea that maybe the band was a bit better than "open". Station here K3 + KPA1500, Inverted L over FCP, no RX antennas (working on that), NOT a superstation. Wowser, I wonder if we'll get that again before the sunspots start in again. I can hope. 73, Guy K2AV On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 3:27 PM Roger Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well conditions were reasonable over the weekend . . . > > I spent a total of about 3 hours on the band, and managed to work 48 NA > stations through all the European QRM. > > I'm sure I would have worked a lot more, as I heard many others calling > stations that were calling CQ . . . but I'm reluctant to put out a CQ call > in a contest, as I don't want to work hundreds of Europeans (I'm up in the > middle of the night to work some DX !) > > As I say, I wouldn't say conditions were particularly good, but the band > was > open. > > > Roger G3YRO > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector This email has been scanned by BullGuard antivirus protection. For more info visit www.bullguard.com _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
