>From central California, perennial big guns JA3YBK and JA5DQH were way
over S9 in the ARRL 160 about 2 hours before SR. They had big pileups,
so I am thinking lots of stations were hearing them, whether or not they
could work them.
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Rick Karlquist
N6RK
On 2022-12-07 10:13, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 12/7/2022 6:57 AM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
>
>> Well given that several people have posted that conditions were poor, I
>> guess I should be happy that I managed to work 26 NA stations in the hour I
>> spent on the band - even more so as I have this horrendous wideband noise on
>> 160 at the moment!
>
> ARRL 160 is a worldwide contest. Propagation varies from one part of the
> world to another. From my QTH near San Francisco, the only stations I heard
> from the west were KH6 and KL7 (2,000 miles over water), and I heard very few
> stations from the east coast (2,800). "DX" was PJ2 and C6 (3,800 miles).
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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