Tod,
Your reference below to NI6T should be to NI5T. I was never happy about
their callsign choice for their contest station, for obvious reasons,
and your observation merely serves to maximize my discomfort. I was not
QRV in this contest.
Garry, NI6T
On 2/26/2012 9:15 AM, Tod Olson wrote:
Barry:
I found your tape fascinating. I am very envious of the low noise level
that was recorded - - beverages must make a difference. :)
Although I heard, from my Idaho QTH, some of the same signals you
recorded, the signal levels were considerably different. KG7H, WA7LT, W6YI
were noticeably louder for me. Even AB5M was louder. NI6T seems to be
missing from your tape although they were active and loud every time I was
operating.
The big signals on your tape seem to be from stations that are less than
700 miles from you. The DX stations simply did not exist - at least for me
while I was listening. [I was sleeping at 4:00 AM MST1100 UTC]
I managed to hear and work a couple of FL stations, one ME station, and
one VA station. Only the ME station was comfortably above the noise level.
This year most of the East Coast stations simply did not seem to be on the
air. [I am sure that they were on the air but I just could not hear them].
While it seemed I could fairly easily work stations within 700 miles of my
QTH, there simply aren't enough of them. Most of the stations I was able
to work by calling CQ had signals that required a great deal of
concentration. All in all I found this to be one of the more challenging
years for this contest. It simply seemed as though the propagation was
insufficient to overcome the listening challenges of my station on 160m.
In other years this has not been the case. In fact, it was not the case
for the ARRL 160 and the CQWW CW 160 earlier in this contest season.
The conditions served to make one appreciate good propagation. And your
tape, during what I deem to be a poor propagation period, shows how a
really good station can overcome some of the poor propagation effects.
Thanks again for making it available.
73, Tod, K0TO
On 2/26/12 6:49 AM, Barry N1EUbarry.n...@gmail.com wrote:
I had the tape running this morning around 1100Z as I scanned the band and
I caught 49 stations, and I posted the sound clip to
http://n1eu.com/mp3/cq160ssb26Feb12_1100Z.mp3
That's what it sounded like in Albany NY on my Orion and Beverage antenna.
Unfortunately the stereo diversity was lost in the recording (my bad).
Below is the list of stations in order:
W0AIH
N4HB
WW8OH
ND8DX
K4WW
N2EOC
WA7LT
W8CO
NT8Z
AB5MM
C6ANM
W0MR
KK1KW
NF8J
WD5COV
N2CW
WB9Z
VE3MIS
N3RR
K2GE
W8GP
W6YI
KG7H
N9UY
W2ID
K3STX
W2MF
W8XXX
W5PR
AK5DX
W3TS
AB2DE
ZF2AM
WA4ZXV
N3HBX
K1AR
W3KL
W1XX
K1LZ
K8PO
CO2GG
VE3DC
WJ2D
K9NW
N4BCC
W0MR
KA1IOR
AB5MM
N2EOC
73,
Barry N1EU
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