Topband: 160 to NA

[Jim Brown]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:08:28 -0500, John K9UWA wrote:

>Jim if you put a dozen or so local W6 stations calling CQ within 5 Khz of you... 
>just how many DX Stations calling do you think any one would hear? Same problem 
>as many EU's clg CQ close to each other.

I don't agree. In any 160 contest, there are big signals wall to wall, especially 
in the JA window between 1810 and 1825, and those of use with decent radios and 
RX antennas manage to hear quite well. More to the point, when someone shows up 
with broad phase noise and clicks, he hears about it right away, and if he 
doesn't fix it, we talk about him like the dog he is! That was true three years 
ago when most of us had to de-click our MPs. We can cram in even more stations 
now that many of us are running K3s. 

Last night I was parked on 1824.65 running about 80-100 per hour when NQ4I (near 
Atlanta) decided he wanted to run on 1824.7. I chased him up to 1824.85, then 
slid down to 1824.6. Within the next few minutes, PJ2T and several southern W4s 
worked me, and I heard W7WHY (OR) work NQ4I. I didn't count them, but I'd guess 
that there were close to 80 stations in that 15 kHz window.  

73,

Jim K9YC