Topband: Phone contests on 160?

[Shoppa, Tim]

On 12/5/2012 4:29 PM, Steve HA0DU wrote:
> Why can't the mazochists contesting on 160 SSB have the whole band for
> 6 days in a year? *Well they can **and they do*!  It doesn't seem to 
> bother many.  My problem is I have to re-peak my ATU at the tower for 
> much over 1855 and there are are stations up to and beyond 1950Khz. I 
> have a 2 RPM gearmotor but have not put in the jog switch yet.

I know of CQ 160 phone for 2 days a year... what other phone contests come into 160? ARRL DX phone, CQ WPX phone, CQ WW phone? Doesn't that bring us to 8 days?

In my days as a novice I learned how to take strong SW broadcasters in the 40M novice band and just tune them out mentally. As a result I rarely recognize phone activity as anything except a noise source to be ignored! 

Tim.