Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 10:57:15 -0700
From: Radio KH6O
To: topband
Subject: Topband: QRP on 160?
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In the 2000s I worked a few contests running 5 watts. Two or three ARRL 160
contests using a 38' top loaded vertical at home and a couple contests from
a land bridge out in the Great Salt Lake of Utah running a full size
balloon vertical grounding to the lake. With the 38' antenna I topped out
at
No, I guess I should have clarified what I was saying . . .
Sure, my 160m mobile whip is much less efficient than a full-sized 160m
aerial . . . but I have calibrated the S Meter on my Mobile Rig so that it
reads the same as signals on my main aerial at home. (and both my rigs at
home have
It only took me 30 years and 15 minutes to get WAS QRP on 160m. The last
holdout was HI, and while riding the grayline wave at 1330Z during the last
morning of the CQ-160 a couple of years ago, I was able to snag KH7A, with
his fantastic antenna array.
I still do some 160m QRP, but I've
On 7/5/2024 3:00 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
I operate 160m mobile, and it's really depressing driving around. There is a
general noise level of S7 everywhere . . . only when you get about 10 miles
from any town or power line does it drop to about S3
And remember that S-meters are simply a
As Tom just posted, we were limited to 10 watts Input on Top Band . . . and
certainly my early DX contacts were all running that.
But after a few years I realised that most 160m DXers were running a lot
more power . . . a couple of locals had Amps with a pair of 813s !
I never had anything
For many years after I was licensed in 1960, we were limited in G-land to
10 watts input to the PA (not output). So working DX was a major
achievement, although there were quite a few 'fat watts' around!
G3PU used to regularly work VK and ZL with a genuine 10 watts from his
cliff top QTH on the
Appears so! I need to find my QRP watt meter and check it.
On Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 09:31:40 AM CDT, Ken WA8JXM
wrote:
Ah! So "zero power" on a K3 is not actually zero?! Good to know!
Ken WA8JXM
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 9:46 AM Mike Furrey wrote:
I accidentally made a QRP Q on 160
"Minimum power" on my TS-890S or FT-991A is just under five (5) watts
(actually, about 4.7 for both).
Steve, K0XP
On 7/2/2024 7:31 AM, Ken WA8JXM wrote:
Ah! So "zero power" on a K3 is not actually zero?! Good to know!
Ken WA8JXM
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 9:46 AM Mike Furrey wrote:
I
Ah! So "zero power" on a K3 is not actually zero?! Good to know!
Ken WA8JXM
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 9:46 AM Mike Furrey wrote:
> I accidentally made a QRP Q on 160 ... I had just moved and set up my
> station and wanted to test a feature off the air but couldn't find a dummy
> load. So,
I accidentally made a QRP Q on 160 ... I had just moved and set up my station
and wanted to test a feature off the air but couldn't find a dummy load.
So, I cranked the power of the K3 to zero, dropped my call, NO3M came back
with a report. That dude has some ears!
73, Mike WA5POK
On
On 7/1/2024 8:58 PM, Ken WA8JXM wrote:
For the younger crowd, 25 watts was the max power allowed in several 160m
segments (especially the opposite coast) back in the 60's and 70's. 100w
was the max anywhere in the U.S.
For a lot of reasons, having to do with having a life outside of ham
For the younger crowd, 25 watts was the max power allowed in several 160m
segments (especially the opposite coast) back in the 60's and 70's. 100w
was the max anywhere in the U.S.
When I first got on 160 in 1964, working two states away was
often considered DX for me!
Yes, there were
On 7/1/2024 5:19 PM, GEORGE WALLNER wrote:
The trick is to wait until conditions are right. Otherwise, you will be
wasting your time.
Yes, QRP is excellent at teaching us about propagation!
> In a contest however, I think QRP is a bit unfair to the other guy.
I don't. Far too many hams
QRP on 160 is possible but you need a very good antenna, especially for DX.
(It is still painful, though.)
On the TX3A Chesterfield DXpedition I worked a W7 on TB, good signal, no bid
deal. About an hour later he called me again and I worked him again. Then
another 30 minutes later I heard him
Interesting and at my old location and in my 60sI won a couple of 160m
contesting QRP awards at5 watts CW for New England and NH.Thats not saying much
because I won a certificatefor QRP SSB with only 5 contacts on 160m.
In my mid 80s now I need plenty of sleep and
being in a condo the
Jeff,
I haven't been on topband in a few years since my antenna went down in an ice
storm. I was always active QRP in the big Stew Perry contests back 8-20 years
ago but then I got old and couldn't stay awake all night and together with some
health problems for both my wife and me I haven't
I'm not on 160 right now, but spent an entire solar cycle at 5W. That
includes a couple of ARRL contests where I was able to CQ effectively. I
was using an inverted-L (about 65' up and 65' across) with only 3 radials
up about 12'. No RX antenna - I figured as weak as I was that they weren't
I operated in the Big Stew Perry (Dec) one year, QRP 5w, from the K4PI 160
station location (The Farm). Full sized 4 square transmit antenna, several
beverages and an 8 circle receiving array. The conditions stunk for hearing
much DX that year, but no one had any trouble hearing me, and I did
Not regularly but sometimes, operated the CQ160m CW qrp 9 times with good
results.
73
Peter, DJ7WW
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Betreff: Topband: QRP on 160?
Datum: 2024-07-01T20:02:04+0200
Von: "Radio KH6O"
An: "topband"
Is anyone regularly using say, 25W or less on 160
The last few years I have worked at least one of the 160 contests at 5w CW to
a 260’ doublet up 60’ in the trees.
I’ve made Qs but don’t think I’ve ever cracked the top 20 in any of them.
Tons of fun tho!
dit dit
73 de Ed, K1RID
Newburyport Electronics & Radio Society
> On Jul 1, 2024, at
On 7/1/2024 10:57 AM, Radio KH6O wrote:
Is anyone regularly using say, 25W or less on 160?
Years ago, I ran 5W in pursuit of QRP WAS in 160 CW contests from my QTH
near San Francisco, and was down to needing three states -- WV, SC, and
VT. About 8 years ago, the explosion of RX noise caught
This annual contest is scheduled for Z to 0600Z, 27 November, next
Wednesday evening.
I know, I knowit's QRP and there are few participants amongst you all but
if you are on Top Band that evening and hear our pathetically weak sigs
and are in the moodanswer us and send the
This annual contest is scheduled for Z to 0600Z, 27 November, next
Wednesday evening.
I know, I knowit's QRP and there are few participants amongst you all but
if you are on Top Band that evening and hear our pathetically weak sigs and are
in the mood,
answer our plaintive CQs
OHCW and SSB modes are utilized for this event.
From: rodenkirch_...@msn.com
To: topband@contesting.com
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:48:22 -0700
Subject: Topband: QRP ARCI 160 meter sprint
This annual contest is scheduled for Z to 0600Z, 27 November, next
Wednesday evening
Thank you James! I do not think I have done the QRP ARCI events in the past
but I will give this 160M one a try. Wednesday right before Thanksgiving
actually works out well for me. This will be my first SO2R effort, and I
will be doing some improvements to give me pushbutton receive antenna
, 21 Nov 2014 10:43:26 -0500
From: tsho...@gmail.com
To: rodenkirch_...@msn.com; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: QRP ARCI 160 meter sprint
Thank you James! I do not think I have done the QRP ARCI events in the past
but I will give this 160M one a try. Wednesday right before
Dale: we, Dale (WC7S) and I are very interested in what you're cooking up as
far as that 160 meter rig is concerned.
I think I'll still start off on the Little Joe/Ten Tec/W8DIZ amp route, just
'cuz it's something I'd like to undertake and make work BUT, while
thinking/doing all of that,
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