Topband: K4M 160m

[Richard L. King]

At 13:46 10/21/2009, Steve London wrote:
>Herb Schoenbohm wrote:
>
> > A more direct comparison would be the awesome performance of FT5XO from
> > the same region on 160. Night after night they were providing TB's with
> > at least a chance for a super rare country. With FT5GA, most of us never
> > had a chance and probably won't for a long long time..
>
>Yes, the FT5XO operation was well-run, with great operators and at least good
>antennas. However, I will point out that no 160 meter QSO's were 
>made with the
>southcentral and southwestern USA - the strip through Texas, New Mexico and
>Arizona. I could be mistaken on this, but I don't even think any 80 
>meter QSO's
>were made from those states, either.
>
>Location, location, propagation.
>
>73,
>Steve, N2IC/5


I agree with Steve.

I tried really, really hard to work FT5XO on both 80M and 160M and 
never got a QSO on either band. We just didn't have good enough 
propagation from Central Texas.

Plus that DXpedition was a micro-lite DXpedition without amplifiers 
and they never had enough signal here to make them workable.

I hope someone goes back to FT5X some day and takes an amplifier.

73, Richard - K5NA