Topband: 160 activity

[James Rodenkirch]

Agree, Larry, with all of your points ..... but.....just where ARE other ops, like you, who subscribe to the position that having a > 15 second QSO on 160 is a good thing?
 
I was on 160 many nights and early mornings last winter calling CQ with few replies....oh, yes, the antenna was "working" just fine!
 
I'm not on this fall/winter as we're in our RV out in FL but will get back on in mid-January - sure hope there is more "activity" than just during contests but I'm not holding my breath!
 
72/73, Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:15:38 +0000
 To: topband at contesting.com
 Subject: Topband: 160 activity
 From: topband at contesting.com
 
 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