- 1. Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:06:08 -0500
- Good luck to all! 73, Gary KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00695.html (6,596 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:22:05 -0500
- Interesting conditions here last night. I heard a whole lot of DX that simply could not hear me. I'm running QRP and don't expect to work everything I hear but one thing for sure, the overall conditi
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00701.html (9,142 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: "David Raymond" <daraymond@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:40:12 -0600
- I'm not sure why you would be surprised running QRP that stations that were "loud" couldn't hear you. You're at a 13 db disadvantage at a minimum. Ad in clix (and there plenty of them) plus QRM the g
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00702.html (10,107 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:29:07 -0800
- Yes, it was a good night. Dave, W0FLS and Toni, N0NI, are two guys who pulled my QRP signal out. Thanks also to W5MX and someone signing a club call in Gulfport, MS who heard me and gave me KY and MS
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00705.html (8,318 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Haavisto <kamham69@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:30:27 -0500
- This is only part of it. Just one example from a few years ago in a 160 contest; There was a very loud station in the Caribean, and he was running EU, and doing quite well. Many NA stations calling h
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00706.html (12,043 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Don Kirk <wd8dsb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 14:10:51 -0500
- Hi Gary, I previously was amazed at some loud stations (like 20 or 30 dB over S9) that could not hear my 100 watt station, and I thought it was due to the fact that they were using directional RX ant
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00709.html (12,126 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 14:11:27 -0500
- Dave, I wouldn't say Surprised, more like curious. Obviously my 5W is not going to break a pileup and that's no surprise but when contesting stations with low signal levels here are working one stati
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00710.html (13,174 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: "David Raymond" <daraymond@iowatelecom.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:19:11 -0600
- We are often forced to run with fairly narrow bandwidths (I had to run last night with 250 Hz) with stations sometimes being spaced out only 300 or 400 Hz. I had several occasions last night when som
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00712.html (12,667 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 14:19:04 -0500
- Hi Gary, As preface, you are in my CQ160CW log. And lest someone have the idea that the following is some kind of whining about QRP... Particularly in a contest, I ENJOY trying to pull QRP stations o
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00713.html (10,630 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:25:23 -0800
- Like Dave, you have articulated the issues pretty well. BTW -- I called you several times last night, but prop wasn't very good (I heard a half dozen NC stations, none of them very loud). 73, Jim K9Y
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00714.html (8,174 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 15:25:38 -0500
- I felt like the SE US was under a propagation blanket. A look at RBN, NA spotted by EU nodes made us notable by our absence, K3ZM the notable exception of course. EU would pop in for a few minutes an
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00715.html (8,881 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:02:53 -0500
- I'm thinking I need to add a qualifier to my earlier post; in no way am I complaining how hard it is to work QRP on 160 and for surer, it's harder on the station trying to make sense of such minuscul
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00716.html (9,280 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 21:07:45 +0000
- I'm not sure your propagation blanket didn't extend a bit further north ;-) 73, Barry N1EU _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00717.html (9,991 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:28:30 -0500
- I felt conditions were "OK" to various parts of Europe throughout the night. Yes, things would seem good to one location or another for a few minutes, then just evaporate. That station from Haiti 4V1
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00718.html (10,294 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Hider <n3rr@erols.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:52:23 -0500
- Totally different experience here. Condx were fabulous. At the half way point, I have 71 DX stns wkd (non US & non VE), 42 DX countries. EU stns were everywhere and stayed in for several hours. But,
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00719.html (10,575 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Haavisto <kamham69@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:58:33 -0500
- One small request would be to NOT mention callsigns - at least during the 5 day "waiting period" for log submissions to be completed. Some folks may not be running assisted, may bust the odd call or
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00720.html (12,164 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Jeff Kincaid <w6jk@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 21:59:39 +0000 (UTC)
- Hi Jim, Even I heard you once, from the deepest darkest Los Angeles. About 0825 you were calling someone I couldn't hear while you were Q5. It gave me a bit of a thrill knowing you were QRP, and wa
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00721.html (9,641 bytes)
- 18. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: ALEXEY OGORODOV <ua4wae@mail.ru>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:15:44 +0300
- Hi guys, Conditions are not bad. I'm running about 80-90 watts to my TL 23 meter Vertical with 40 radials. No RX to speak of if a 80M Inv L with 2 radials counts. So far 180 q's, some EU. No condx to
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00722.html (12,165 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: chacuff <chacuff@cableone.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:45:47 -0600
- Probably our club station in Gulfport... K5GDX. We operate field day style... Generator power and all. RX 4 Sq, 550 beverage to Europe added this year. 1/4 wave vertical under a balloon over o
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00724.html (9,109 bytes)
- 20. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:44:43 -0800
- That's it! Many thanks. 73, Jim On Sat,1/30/2016 5:45 PM, chacuff wrote: Probably our club station in Gulfport... K5GDX. We operate field day style... Generator power and all. RX 4 Sq, 550 beverage t
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00725.html (8,296 bytes)
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