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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