Topband: ARRL 160 contest observation

[Carl Clawson]

I guess Jim must have missed the opening last January. On the 8th through
10th I put PA, S5, GD, SM, OH, LA, and TF in the log from Oregon - 4 new
ones plus a couple old friends. Heard about a dozen other EU entities on
the 8th but the pileups were too ferocious for me to break. That was the
first time I'd heard EU since 2010. Then I got lucky in CQ 160 and worked
CS2F for a new one. That was the most recent EU I've heard.

Hope to see you all in the coming Stew and CQ 160.
73, Carl WS7L


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Jim
>
> I note from QRZ that you have 133 countries contacted on 160… and yet you
> haven’t heard Europe in 2 years.
>
> Kinda puts into perspective what 160 is like for those of us in the West
> these days.
>
> KQ0C
> Ash
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/11/2013 7:56 AM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
> >> After CQ WW CW, I was talking with a guy in Arizona who had worked 100+
> JA's on 160 in that test! More than half a continent away, very different
> perspective on 160 than mine!
> >
> > Yep. 100+ 5,500 mile QSOs, but only 1 multiplier.
> >
> > As to EU -- I haven't heard EU on 160 in more than two years.
> >
> > 73, Jim K9YC
> >
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