Let me try this again, I tried to correct a typo and hit send instead.
With 500W and an inverted-L with a too sparse radial field I managed to work two
EUs, F and EA, new ones for me on 160. I heard OH and SM too but getting past
the "gentlemen" on the east coast isn't in the cards. I worked a couple of JAs
too, but nothing like my friend N7DD, who was running them. He was hearing some
that weren't even there for me.
I'm not a contest op but a DXer and pretty much hope that some DX will operate
in the contests, but they're looking for points and not especially interested in
digging out weak (but workable) stations..
Even using the RX antenna on receive I hear better than I get out. I need to
QRO.
Wes N7WS
On 12/3/2017 12:51 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 12/3/2017 4:21 AM, Mike VE3YF wrote:
Maybe just me, but I have yet to hear or see HI, again they elude me on 160CW
With 1500W and very good antennas, I worked one KH6, one VK, 3 RA0, 19 JA, and
nothing else anywhere in AS or OC. Thanks to contest scoring rules,
participants can only work W/VE stations, and the band is open from these
locations to W/VE for brief periods of mutual darkness, peaking around
sunrise/sunset at either end. While CQing, I was spotted several times in ZL
and VK, but only those responses. ARRL 160 is mainly for the east coast of the
US and Canada to work EU and the Caribbean, and most of those stations QRT
after EU sunrise. A few of the biggest ones stay around to try to work JA.
73, Jim K9YC
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