Topband: mode separation...small stn dx oppty

[Bill Tippett]

Regarding working DXCC on 160, K6SE wrote:
 >With today's modern equipment, high power and big antennas,  some of the
superstations on the band can probably do it in one season.

         One weekend is more like it.  If I'm not mistaken, someone has
already done this.  When K1ZM set the current CQ WW USA record in 1995,
he had 83 countries in one weekend.  My first QSO on 160 was 10/25/84
as W0ZV from Colorado.  My 160 DXCC #90 is dated 4/23/85, so I worked,
confirmed, submitted and got the award in under 6 months.  My station
was hardly "super" since I didn't even put up my first Beverage until
the following season.  I still recall one of the locals telling me that
160 was not a DX band, and I would be doing very well to WAC from Colorado.
Sometimes it just doesn't pay to listen to your elders!  ;-)

                                         73,  Bill  W4ZV