Topband: 160 activity

[Larry via Topband]

I made a point when I was operating W1AW/8 to try to work 160 phone a 
few times.
The QSO rate was low compared to 20, but I think I made a lot of people 
happy, at least based on the comments I got, and for a QSO party, I 
thought that was the point.

A contest is a different kettle of fish altogether.  In some ways I am 
glad that 160 seems to be a refuge from the 15 second QSO. Not knocking 
contesting at all;  I have fun with it and love running a good pileup, 
and you learn a lot about your station and your skills doing that.  But 
when a contest is running, and you aren't in it, it's nice to have a 
place where you can go and have a nice relaxed chat if that's what you want.

160 is a good band for regional communications at any hour, and an 
interesting challenge for longer haul at night.  The people on 160 tend 
to be nicer than those on 80, for sure, another reason to operate 
there.  Although my CW is still a bit rusty, I worked a couple of folks 
on CW that asked me.  One of the WV team ran RTTY on 160 and had a great 
time doing it, too.

BTW, if anyone wants WV for WAS, drop me a line.

Larry
KD8WSP



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>     1. ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160? (Mike Waters)
>     2. Re: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
>        (Richard (Rick) Karlquist)
>     3. Re: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160? (Mike Waters)
>     4. Re: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160? (Mike Waters)
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> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 21:34:51 -0500
> From: Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com>
> To: topband <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Topband: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
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> I just tuned across the low end of 160, and nothing (except one RTTY
> signal)! Is my receiver broke? I expected to hear at least SOME CW.
>
> I did just get struck by lightning a few days ago; maybe I have a problem I
> didn't know about. But I hear RCR on AM loud on 1860. And yes, I do believe
> the UTC date and time is correct here.
>
> I assume that this contest is just not popular on 160.
>
> http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php#5620
> http://www.arrl.org/sweepstakes
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> 73, Mike
> www.w0btu.com
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:43:22 -0700
> From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>
> To: Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com>, topband <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
> Message-ID: <54559A4A.7040904 at karlquist.com>
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> On 11/1/2014 7:34 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
>> I just tuned across the low end of 160, and nothing (except one RTTY
>> signal)! Is my receiver broke? I expected to hear at least SOME CW.
>>
> We have a saying in the Northern California Contest Club:
>
> If you're on 160 during SS, you are losing.
>
> Rick N6RK
> President NCCC
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 21:51:15 -0500
> From: Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com>
> To: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>,	topband
> 	<topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
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> Thanks, Rick.
>
> But some of us are more interested in 160 meters than winning a contest. :-)
>
> 73, Mike
> www.w0btu.com
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> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist <
> richard at karlquist.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/1/2014 7:34 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
>>
>>> I just tuned across the low end of 160, and nothing (except one RTTY
>>> signal)! Is my receiver broke? I expected to hear at least SOME CW.
>>>
>> We have a saying in the Northern California Contest Club:
>>
>> If you're on 160 during SS, you are losing.
>>
>> Rick N6RK
>> President NCCC
>>
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> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 22:03:08 -0500
> From: Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com>
> To: topband <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL CW SS started. Why is nobody on 160?
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> Hi Jim,
>
> So THAT'S it! It's the ARRL's fault! :-)
>
> I didn't realize that "once per band" was missing from this contest.
>
> Thanks and 73,
> Mike
> www.w0btu.com
>
> Amen. I get on 160 as often as I can - trying to get WAS on Top Band ...
>> Some contest activity would be nice. Maybe ARRL should have a category for
>> the most SS contacts on 160.....
>>
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