Jon,
I was one of the 160 m operators.
NA callers were thick during the evening hours when they
were competing with EU, making for some difficult
pile-ups, but after midnight (and EU sunrise), often there
were very few NA callers.
George
AA7JV
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:57:38 +0000
jon jones <n0jk@hotmail.com> wrote:
I consider VP6DX to be one of the top all time 160 meter
DX operations. Despite being thousands of miles from
North America, they worked many small stations including
me (at the time had just moved so a random wire thrown
over the house and 100 watts).
K1N had a great signal on 160, well over S-9 most nights
- but seemed to be having difficulty hearing callers.
Despite a full size inverted L, I was not QSO 5,400...
- Jon N0JK
IMHO the operations at 5A7A, K5D, K1N, R1MVW, HK0NA,
TS7C,and TX5K did an
extremely
good job and were able to take advantage of the
proximity to major
population areas. They
had to have a good station and great operators, and had
to be on the
ground long enough
to take make the large amount of Qs.
But, and again IMHO, the operations at VP6DX, T32C, and
ZL8X are
OUTSTANDING because
they had to overcome the big one; DISTANCE, for nearly
100% of their Qs.
Now to separate those three just a bit.
ZL8X did 4,206 Qs with a crew of 14 operators and 18
days of operation.
T32C did 4,985 Qs with a crew of 41 operators and 32
days of operation.
VP6DX did 6,671 Qs with a crew of 13 operators and 17
days of operation.
73 de Milt, N5IA
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