Hi Roger, I can attest there were many US and VE along with several Caribbean stations CQing between 04:17utc-05:59 Sunday morning (Saturday night local) when I was S&Ping and CQing on 160. There were 6 VE ops on CQing another half dozen east coast ops and several midwest ops that I could hear with my low inverted L. Also CQing were VP5M, PJ2T, PJ4K, and 8P5A. I heard M6T and MW5B here on this end but could not get their attention other than an occsional ??agn. Those were the only two EU ops I heard here. 160 was not as quiet here as it can be. My noise floor was up at S7 and normally can be as low as S1-2. Usually EU pops in around the S5 threshold. M6T and MW5B were right at my S7 noise floor but 100% copyable.
I did work all four of the Caribbean ops, but PJ2T was the toughest. It took many minutes trying off and on to get his attention, and he was a solid S9 here. May have been a noisy band on his end? Dave is correct though, conditions being better on 80 and 40 for more mults in a contest, one is going to spend more time where the feeding frenzy is more plentiful! I hope to work you and Dave one of these times on 160. 73! Gene N9TF > On 11/27/2024 1:35 PM CST g3nkc via Topband <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For sure Roger, I was CQing only, except when I tried to call PJ2T.Guessing > Many of the stations I worked, would have worked M6T for their mult, but > there were quite a few M/M un USA too.Also, if you had CQed, you would have > hit RBNs, so more casual ops would have come to you I guess, I know you get > out well73 Dave, G3NKC Sent from my Galaxy > -------- Original message --------From: Roger Kennedy > <[email protected]> Date: 27/11/2024 19:11 (GMT+00:00) To: > [email protected] Subject: Topband: CQWW CW 160m Hi DaveWell you > certainly worked a lot more NA stations than I did . . . But I'm guessing you > were mainly calling CQ, and they called YOU?Whereas I was mainly tuning > around, looking for NA stations to call. (anddidn't hear many!)Roger > G3YRO_________________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
