Heard/worked W/K best on Sunday morning during 1 hour before SR here (06.55z),
time frame 27. Jan 06z - 07z.
Went west up to the border between zones ITU-7/ITU-8 (TN, MI, OH, WV, IL, WI,
KY, IN).
Farest west was K0DI in NE.
All time before was disappointing.
73, Thomas.
> Gesendet: Montag, 28. Januar 2013 um 08:42 Uhr
> Von: "Henk PA5KT" <pa5kt@remijn.net>
> An: topband@contesting.com
> Betreff: Re: Topband: CQ 160 Contest
>
> I was only active from Saturday evening on.
> Had the idea that there were more participants as last years.
>
> About the DX, I did not hear a lot of asian stations, and those that I
> hear were very weak. Did not work Japan.
> Till about 02:00 UTC I did only work 5 NA stations, and signals were not
> good.
> I took a break and from 03:00 I was on again. After that time I worked
> several eastcoast NA.
> Signals were like on 20m. But almost no midwest.
>
> From half hour before sunrise (sunrise at 07:30) I also worked AZ and
> CA and several caribbean stations. Signals like 20m.
>
> After sunrise band closed pretty fast. Last dx at 07:33 with W0AIH.
> I stopped at 07:45.
>
> Sunday evening was the same, only EU no Asia, only some middle east
> heard. (Not worked as too many stations only calling and not listening).
>
> I did work 2 TX stations, but used to work more.
>
> 73 Henk PA5KT
>
> Op 28-1-2013 1:45, Mike(W5UC) & Kathy (K5MWH) schreef:
> > The CQ 160 contest was a large disappointment this year here in EM21.
> > At least at this location, Europe was weak or not heard. Please, I
> > would like to know what others were hearing. I saw few, if any EU
> > postings on VE7CC from others in this area.
> >
> > At least I am enjoying the winter. It was a frigid 78 degrees F here
> > in EM21pi today. (No, that's not a typo)
> >
> > 73,
> > Mike, W5UC
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