George is spot-on with his comments.
I logged K1N from W6 early in the expedition at 0857Z on 3 February for
my first QSO with K1N. The absence of Euros made it a relatively easy QSO.
Garry, NI6T
On 2/17/2015 6:28 PM, GeorgeWallner wrote:
Jon,
I was one of the 160 m operators.
NA callers were thick during the evening hours when they were
competing with EU, making for some difficult pile-ups, but after
midnight (and EU sunrise), often there were very few NA callers.
George
AA7JV
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:57:38 +0000
jon jones <n0jk@hotmail.com> wrote:
I consider VP6DX to be one of the top all time 160 meter DX
operations. Despite being thousands of miles from North America, they
worked many small stations including me (at the time had just moved
so a random wire thrown over the house and 100 watts).
K1N had a great signal on 160, well over S-9 most nights - but seemed
to be having difficulty hearing callers. Despite a full size inverted
L, I was not QSO 5,400...
- Jon N0JK
IMHO the operations at 5A7A, K5D, K1N, R1MVW, HK0NA, TS7C,and TX5K
did an
extremely
good job and were able to take advantage of the proximity to major
population areas. They
had to have a good station and great operators, and had to be on the
ground long enough
to take make the large amount of Qs.
But, and again IMHO, the operations at VP6DX, T32C, and ZL8X are
OUTSTANDING because
they had to overcome the big one; DISTANCE, for nearly 100% of
their Qs.
Now to separate those three just a bit.
ZL8X did 4,206 Qs with a crew of 14 operators and 18 days of operation.
T32C did 4,985 Qs with a crew of 41 operators and 32 days of operation.
VP6DX did 6,671 Qs with a crew of 13 operators and 17 days of
operation.
73 de Milt, N5IA
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