Topband: 160 Nostalgia

[wb6tza at socal.rr.com]

Another easy to spot fist- KH6CC.   even into the 90s and beyond, that
call could be picked out of the noise just from the cadence..  that
credits his contact with me from XZ1N.

Anyone remember which ZL (I think it was ZL3IQ?)  that Alex, W6KIP,
had a nightly schedule with in the late 50s and early 60s?  I remember
listening regularly to see if I could hear anything, don't recall ever
hearing ZL/VK at my place during that period, but, then, I didn't have
much except a tuned loop and a HQ-140X to listen with..

I remember participating in the very first CQ160CW contest  - when was
it? 1960?  I seem to recall working 110 contacts, or there about,
especially including Stew, W1BB and Charlie, W2EQS (or maybe that
number was in the second running)..  Listening on 1801 through the
Loran pulses coming across the Santa Barbara channel (from Point
Conception as I recall) is something my ears are still ringing from..

2000 Kcs.    1999.5 if you had a GOOD radio, 1999 if you were not so
sure, except when the marine ships were yelling on their ship-shore
phone calls on 2004 Kcs, then we all had to move down or be deaf.

Robin, WA6CDR


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
To: <W5USM at aol.com>; <Topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:46
Subject: Re: Topband: 160 Pioneer W5SUS


> Gee, I feel bad. I submitted a column to Worldradio before this
thread
> started. Now it is partially out of date before being printed, hi
hi.
>
> I'm sure everyone from the 60's and 70's remembers W5SUS. All those
dits!
> I'd like to have heard John work EI5HE through the QRN.
>
> Another 5 call that sticks in my mind is K5JVF.
>
> Also W2IU, who used to sit and run Europeans on 160 CW. W4EX Claude
who
> owned the band for working VK's in the 70's, and Dale W6VSS (now
K6UA) who
> just had an outstanding signal. In the early 60's I remember tuning
in a
> very weak W6YY (near 2000Kc/s) with two-half waves on a 450 ft tower
on Mt
> Wilson, and just a Kc or two below him was W6VSS just pounding in
like a
> local.
>
> Many fists had a swing, and I could often tell who it was just by
listening
> to the fist. W5SUS and K5JVF were no exception. EI9J, W1BB, W2IU,
W2EQS,
> G3PU, they all had a certain swing. Keyers sure changed that.
>
> 73, Tom W8JI
>
>
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