Topband: ARRL 160 this year

[James Rodenkirch]

I was listening when you and Lloyd were calling Tor, Jim --- I'd been calling him on and off earlier but no joy (he wudda been a new mult for me).

I had a little better "luck" into the east coast - worked VY2, ME, EPA and WPA, WNY, NC, NFL and VA - but that was all! Usually, we do mo betta than that.

Heard two JAs and HL5IVL Saturday morning and one JA Sunday morning but I was hugely disappointed when I couldn't work any of those - usually, put a half dozen in the log this time of year - so my score suffered. Band was super noisy Saturday morning and quiet as a church mouse Sunday morning (guess there was a large solar flare early Sunday).

Best of luck in the Stew - will be in south FL with our RV around Christmas time and through mid-April so zero 160 ops till the end of April.

71.5/72 de Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV
  
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From: Topband <topband-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2015 2:00 PM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 this year

On Sun,12/6/2015 12:48 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
> Conditions, conditions, conditions...

Yep. Pretty punk from here in W6. I got shut out on finishing QRP WAS.
Must have called N4OGW a hundred times. KH6LC was calling too. Looks
like Tor needs to work on his ears.

K8JQ was copyable Saturday morning but not Sunday morning. Saw N8II
spotted, a K7 pretty close to his frequency, never copied him. Called
WD5R a few times, no joy. Ditto for NO3M. This is the first 160 contest
when I couldn't work these guys QRP. Heard some W2 and W3, AA1K was the
only W1, and he was weak.

Best DX was WL7E and KH6LC. W0AIH was best DX to the east.

Let's hope the Stew Perry is better.

73, Jim K9YC
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