Topband: ARRL 160 contest

[zl3ix@inet.net.nz]

> Pete's question was not specifically about the window. Let's not mix messages.
> 
> It was abt a lack of DX activity.
> 
Let me give the point of view of one particular DX station.  I went into the 
shack after supper on Saturday (abt 08z), fully intending to "give it a bash".  
I tuned around the band to see what there was to work, but the only station I 
could hear was VK2IO trying desperately to work a K9, from whom I could just 
hear the occasional dit.  Conditions were just completely c--p, so I decided 
rather not to waste the night's sleep.

In my short experience on Topband from ZL, I find that our condx at this point 
in the solar cycle are generally poorer than enjoyed by VK, and if VK2IO was 
struggling, then I would have had even more of a problem.  I promise to be more 
persistent in the Stew!

73, Greg,
ZL3IX