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
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