Hi Roger,
I can attest there were many US and VE along with several Caribbean stations
CQing between 04:17utc-05:59 Sunday morning (Saturday night local) when I was
S&Ping and CQing on 160.
There were 6 VE ops on CQing another half dozen east coast ops and several
midwest ops that I could hear with my low inverted L.
Also CQing were VP5M, PJ2T, PJ4K, and 8P5A. I heard M6T and MW5B here on this
end but could not get their attention other than an occsional ??agn. Those were
the only two EU ops I heard here. 160 was not as quiet here as it can be. My
noise floor was up at S7 and normally can be as low as S1-2. Usually EU pops in
around the S5 threshold. M6T and MW5B were right at my S7 noise floor but 100%
copyable.
I did work all four of the Caribbean ops, but PJ2T was the toughest. It took
many minutes trying off and on to get his attention, and he was a solid S9
here. May have been a noisy band on his end?
Dave is correct though, conditions being better on 80 and 40 for more mults in
a contest, one is going to spend
more time where the feeding frenzy is more plentiful!
I hope to work you and Dave one of these times on 160.
73!
Gene N9TF
> On 11/27/2024 1:35 PM CST g3nkc via Topband <topband@contesting.com> wrote:
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> For sure Roger, I was CQing only, except when I tried to call PJ2T.Guessing
> Many of the stations I worked, would have worked M6T for their mult, but
> there were quite a few M/M un USA too.Also, if you had CQed, you would have
> hit RBNs, so more casual ops would have come to you I guess, I know you get
> out well73 Dave, G3NKC Sent from my Galaxy
> -------- Original message --------From: Roger Kennedy
> <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk> Date: 27/11/2024 19:11 (GMT+00:00) To:
> topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: CQWW CW 160m Hi DaveWell you
> certainly worked a lot more NA stations than I did . . . But I'm guessing you
> were mainly calling CQ, and they called YOU?Whereas I was mainly tuning
> around, looking for NA stations to call. (anddidn't hear many!)Roger
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