Hi Joel, What is the antenna there for 160? You were loud here in Phoenix.
Mike KC7V On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM jon jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Great score Joel at ZF5T on 160 Meters! > > The geomagnetic field was active during the CQ WW CW with storm conditions > Friday evening. And with thunderstorm QRN Saturday evening it made for > challenging conditions from the Caribbean on the Topband. > > 810 contacts in 75 countries is amazing in light of this. > > 73 — Jon N0JK > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 13:13:18 -0500 > From: Joel Harrison <[email protected]> > To: uy0zg <[email protected]> > Cc: Kenny Silverman <[email protected]>, Topband > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Topband: TK0C skimmer on 160 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi Nick, > > I was the 160 meter op at ZF5T. Thanks for the Q and glad to put you in > our log. > > Condx from ZF Friday evening to EU were very gud but around 0330z to 0400z > the band went pretty much dead to EU. There was no EU SR peak. > > Saturday around 0130z we had horrible QRN from a storm somewhere in the > Caribbean that made copy on 160 and 80 near impossible. It calmed down > around 0300z but condx were very bad to EU and sigs weak. > > To the west our furthest contact was with KH6J and one other station on > Hawaii but that was it. No JA?s or anything else. We had JA?s spotted on > the cluster but they were being picked up by a JA skimmer. > > Overall it was a good weekend but could have been great with some better > condx and no QRN during the Saturday evening session. We finished with 810 > Q?s, 18 Zones, and 75 countries on 160 from ZF for the weekend. > > 73 Joel W5ZN / ZF2ZN > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > -- 73, Mike KC7V Arizona Outlaws Contest Club _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
