Topband: Not so ood in the contest last night

[Bruce Whitney]

Joe,
I am afraid you are a victim of your own false assumptions. The W1AW/8   Operations on 160 are not at a single station. The SLAARC ops were only on during part of the CQWW160 SSB and were "hearing" pretty well. 939 Q's, 52 SP's, & 19 Countries. Of course, I have never met a 160m op that wouldn't want to hear better..... 
73, Bruce W8RA


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On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:06 PM, "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists at subich.com> wrote:

> 
>> The worst part was I did not hear the South Lyon Group who was
>> running W1AW/8 and they are only 10 ish miles away from me. Maybe
>> tonight :-)
> 
> Don't worry about them ... they've been an alligator on 160 all
> week.  Easily copyable through -60 dBm atmospheric noise here in
> Florida but not working anything except the strong stations within
> 500-600 miles.
> 
> 73,
> 
>   ... Joe, W4TV
> 
> 
> On 2/22/2014 8:41 AM, goldtr8 at charter.net wrote:
>> 
>> I only made 35 contacts last night from my QTH.    I did however get 5
>> new states and if those contacts use LOTW I will only need 5 more
>> contacts for my WAS on 160m phone.
>> 
>> My antennas are an inverted L and big loop so I dont hear real well. But
>> thats my realilty.
>> 
>> The worst part was I did not hear the South Lyon Group who was running
>> W1AW/8 and they are only 10 ish miles away from me. Maybe tonight :-)
>> 
>> I am following the converstations on the receive loops and hopefully
>> will have time and money to invest in one for a summer project and also
>> figure out how to get my inverted L higher before my flat section.
>> 
>> Have fun everyone I know I do.
>> 
>> ~73
>> Don
>> KD8NNU
>> FH#4107
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