I made a point when I was operating W1AW/8 to try to work 160 phone a
few times.
The QSO rate was low compared to 20, but I think I made a lot of people
happy, at least based on the comments I got, and for a QSO party, I
thought that was the point.
A contest is a different kettle of fish altogether. In some ways I am
glad that 160 seems to be a refuge from the 15 second QSO. Not knocking
contesting at all; I have fun with it and love running a good pileup,
and you learn a lot about your station and your skills doing that. But
when a contest is running, and you aren't in it, it's nice to have a
place where you can go and have a nice relaxed chat if that's what you want.
160 is a good band for regional communications at any hour, and an
interesting challenge for longer haul at night. The people on 160 tend
to be nicer than those on 80, for sure, another reason to operate
there. Although my CW is still a bit rusty, I worked a couple of folks
on CW that asked me. One of the WV team ran RTTY on 160 and had a great
time doing it, too.
BTW, if anyone wants WV for WAS, drop me a line.
Larry
KD8WSP
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Today's Topics:
1. ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160? (Mike Waters)
2. Re: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
(Richard (Rick) Karlquist)
3. Re: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160? (Mike Waters)
4. Re: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160? (Mike Waters)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 21:34:51 -0500
From: Mike Waters
To: topband
Subject: Topband: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
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I just tuned across the low end of 160, and nothing (except one RTTY
signal)! Is my receiver broke? I expected to hear at least SOME CW.
I did just get struck by lightning a few days ago; maybe I have a problem I
didn't know about. But I hear RCR on AM loud on 1860. And yes, I do believe
the UTC date and time is correct here.
I assume that this contest is just not popular on 160.
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php#5620
http://www.arrl.org/sweepstakes
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:43:22 -0700
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist"
To: Mike Waters , topband
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
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On 11/1/2014 7:34 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
I just tuned across the low end of 160, and nothing (except one RTTY
signal)! Is my receiver broke? I expected to hear at least SOME CW.
We have a saying in the Northern California Contest Club:
If you're on 160 during SS, you are losing.
Rick N6RK
President NCCC
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 21:51:15 -0500
From: Mike Waters
To: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" , topband
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
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Thanks, Rick.
But some of us are more interested in 160 meters than winning a contest. :-)
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist <
rich...@karlquist.com> wrote:
On 11/1/2014 7:34 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
I just tuned across the low end of 160, and nothing (except one RTTY
signal)! Is my receiver broke? I expected to hear at least SOME CW.
We have a saying in the Northern California Contest Club:
If you're on 160 during SS, you are losing.
Rick N6RK
President NCCC
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 22:03:08 -0500
From: Mike Waters
To: topband
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
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Hi Jim,
So THAT'S it! It's the ARRL's fault! :-)
I didn't realize that "once per band" was missing from this contest.
Thanks and 73,
Mike
www.w0btu.com
Amen. I get on 160 as often as I can - trying to get WAS on Top Band ...
Some contest activity would be nice. Maybe ARRL should have a category for
the most SS contacts on 160.
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