Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-08 Thread Charles Moizeau
gt; To: j...@audiosystemsgroup.com > Subject: Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS > CC: topband@contesting.com > > Jim, since you bring up QRP on 160M, I would like to promote the upcoming > NAQCC 160M QRP sprint. 0130Z-0330Z January 13 2016 (which I think means > it's our Tuesday night). ht

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
Rich, you comment on the "combat zone" aspect of ARRL 160M in past years and how it's not so bad this year. I agree that past couple years it was brutal but last night, not so bad. I don't feel activity was down, just maybe a little bit more rationally spread out. DX window wasn't perfectly respec

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
Jim, since you bring up QRP on 160M, I would like to promote the upcoming NAQCC 160M QRP sprint. 0130Z-0330Z January 13 2016 (which I think means it's our Tuesday night). http://naqcc.info/sprint201601_160.html I usually participate and enjoy it, but do not always send in my log due to the require

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread DL1AMQ
would like to check DXprop between US <=> EU at TopBands both edges to compare in practice. Any comments ? 73 de Thomas, DL1AMQ > Gesendet: Samstag, 05. Dezember 2015 um 19:30 Uhr > Von: "Jim Brown" > An: topband@contesting.com > Betreff: Re: Topband: Topband QR

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Jim Brown
On Sat,12/5/2015 10:38 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: I worked a station in ENY in the contest yesterday at 3:30 PM local time, well over an hour before sunset. Yes. Stations in w8, W9, and VE3 are often loud and clear during these hours, but are mostly using RX antennas aimed at EU, so

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 12/5/2015 10:30 AM, Jim Brown wrote: 160M is a CW band for anything but mindless ragchewing. 73, Jim K9YC _ During the sunspot minimum a few years ago, I worked European Russia on 160 phone. Rick N6RK _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 12/5/2015 9:50 AM, Jim Brown wrote: In addition to all of that, with legal limit power and decent vertical antenna, I can work 800 miles in the daylight hours. 73, Jim K9YC Santa Cruz, CA I worked a station in ENY in the contest yesterday at 3:30 PM local time, well over an hour before s

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Jim Brown
On Sat,12/5/2015 10:14 AM, K4OWR wrote: Anyway, I would appreciate hearing what Fx most of you find best for DX, and is phone only hampering me? 160M is a CW band for anything but mindless ragchewing. 73, Jim K9YC _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topba

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Art Snapper
I'm a relative newbie on 160 (about 5 years) but it seems most DX hangs out on CW between 1820 and 1835. The situation may be different during contests, due to channel availability. 73 de NK8X ᐧ On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:14 PM, K4OWR wrote: > Although I can work CW, I don't usually. It's no

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread K4OWR
Although I can work CW, I don't usually. It's not clear what mode you guys use most. I often go up to the shack around 9pm and listen around for an hour or so, but rarely hear much activity other then the local obnoxious ragchewers who will complain to me that I'm "splattering" on their c

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Jim Brown
On Sat,12/5/2015 8:40 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: Last night, I worked several CT, KY, and SC, and at least 1 MS. I found condx pretty stinko last night to the east coast. Lots of W1 spotted, none heard. K8JQ was heard, but not loud. The very dependable NO3M and WD5R were not very lou

Re: Topband: Topband QRP WAS

2015-12-05 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 12/4/2015 9:38 PM, Jim Brown wrote: I'm still working on this, and need a handful of states. They are CT, VT, WV, KY, SC, andMS. I'm 70 miles S of San Francisco, on the coast. The best time to make these QSOs has been in the 90 or so minutes before local sunrise at the east coast end, and f