Joe, I am afraid you are a victim of your own false assumptions. The W1AW/8 Operations on 160 are not at a single station. The SLAARC ops were only on during part of the CQWW160 SSB and were "hearing" pretty well. 939 Q's, 52 SP's, & 19 Countries. Of course, I have never met a 160m op that wouldn't want to hear better..... 73, Bruce W8RA
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:06 PM, "Joe Subich, W4TV" <li...@subich.com> wrote: > >> The worst part was I did not hear the South Lyon Group who was >> running W1AW/8 and they are only 10 ish miles away from me. Maybe >> tonight :-) > > Don't worry about them ... they've been an alligator on 160 all > week. Easily copyable through -60 dBm atmospheric noise here in > Florida but not working anything except the strong stations within > 500-600 miles. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > On 2/22/2014 8:41 AM, gold...@charter.net wrote: >> >> I only made 35 contacts last night from my QTH. I did however get 5 >> new states and if those contacts use LOTW I will only need 5 more >> contacts for my WAS on 160m phone. >> >> My antennas are an inverted L and big loop so I dont hear real well. But >> thats my realilty. >> >> The worst part was I did not hear the South Lyon Group who was running >> W1AW/8 and they are only 10 ish miles away from me. Maybe tonight :-) >> >> I am following the converstations on the receive loops and hopefully >> will have time and money to invest in one for a summer project and also >> figure out how to get my inverted L higher before my flat section. >> >> Have fun everyone I know I do. >> >> ~73 >> Don >> KD8NNU >> FH#4107 >> -.- -.. ---.. –. –. ..- >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband