I give more credit to A8OK - they had great CW signals out here in western Canada, night after night. Many locals worked them too. Especially strong AFTER I struggled to work them, of course. I got them on 36 bands modes - the extra 2 were 160!
On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 8:00 PM Wes Stewart via Topband < [email protected]> wrote: > The realities about some of these DXpedtions is that they are organized > by Europeans and favor working EU. Take the just concluded (if they kept to > schedule) PX0FF expedition. The ops were all Europeans and >60% of their > Qs were with EU and only 21% were with NA. They didn't even operate 160 > CW. They made 1046 FT8 QSOs on 160 out of >150,000 total. > > 8R7X was another one with EU 54% and NA 31%. Of course propagation > favored EU, but they were active long enough that I worked them on both 160 > CW and FT8 as well as 22 other band/modes. > Ditto A8OK that I worked on 33 band/modes, none on topband. EU 64%, NA > 19%. > I'm not trying to disparage our EU friends, I'm just pointing out the > numbers. > > C21MM will be QRV for at least another week. So far they haven't made any > topband CW contacts and only 6 with NA presumably on FT8. They claim to > have installed an RX antenna, but have high noise. So we shall see, but > I'm not holding my breath. To their credit they have worked about the same > number of CW and FT8 Qs and a few on RTTY, three of them mine. > > AA7JV is a dedicated 160 man, who will put in the hours needed. These > other guys are not so motivated and want to run up their Q count by working > the most productive bands, or by turning on the FT8 robots. > Wes N7WS > > > On Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 12:11:54 PM MST, Jim Brown < > [email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/20/2024 11:14 AM, Steve Harrison wrote: > > If possible, please spend some time attempting to work some North > > American stations on *160 and/or 80m **CW*. A few minutes here and there > > is NOT enough; HOURS on the low bands are needed in order to catch the > > propagation peaks all across the NA and SA continents. > > YES! Veteran expeditioner AA7JV recognized that topband openings tended > to happen on one or two nights of a multi-week activation, and developed > networks to allow simultaneous operation on CW and FT8 during every hour > there's a possibility of propagation. One of the most glaring failures > is abandoning the band at the first hint of daylight, when propagation > PEAKS over the next 45 minutes to an hour! > > 73, Jim K9YC > > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
