On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:44 AM, Gary Smith wrote: > By no means any shadow of a record but I just had a CW QSO on TB with > N3LCW/QRP in Md & me in CT; about 300 miles apart. The band was > absent of signals till down at the bottom, there he was calling CQ as > a QRP so I switched the amp off, turned the K3 down to 5W and got A > 599. a bit later I dropped it to 100mW and got a 559 from his K2. > > Kind of amazing there aren't more people on 160, it's definitely > alive. 100mW... nice!
I agree, there is not a whole lot of activity on 160 cw or digital even though the band is quite capable. Activity seems to be mostly devoted to contesting and DX, (or SSB.) Ken WA8JXM _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
