Topband: 160m LP to LP DX contacts in 2015

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

Well not to appear to be entirely disputatious we should carefully 
consider KP4KE CQ WW 160 meter QRP entry in 2005 which he said he 
accomplished with 4.7 watts to a "magical antenna" which he called a 
"double bazooka" at 60 feet both for RX and TX.  While claiming to work 
42 countries with this magical antenna (which is actually a low dipole) 
in a few hours of operating, I thought I would try and see what 5 watts 
could actually in fact really do on TB. Using a 1/4 wave vertical and 12 
Beverages a few weeks later, and many days after that when the band 
conditions where hot, I called CQ for 4 hours each night without a 
single reply.  During this contest I recall hearing NP4A and Pedro's 
great set up running full power, and very high dipole at 200' and the 
signals were always the same on 160 at my location. So either KP4KE has 
a "magic antenna" or his "QRP" entry in the CQ WW 160 meter QRP category 
totally lacked credulity.

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ



2005 	KP4KE 	SO QRP 160M 	37,345 	364/13/42





On 12/17/2015 7:56 AM, Michel Spelier wrote:
> The title was changed to better describe the original question.
> This topband newcomer asked what had happened to the topband conditions, given
> the rare intercontinental Low Power to Low Power CW QSO’s,
> even when riding upon sun propagation enhancements, as noted in this log, during
> the last 6 or 7 winter topband contests.
> (the last 3 years = topband newcomer)
>
> (snip)
>
> 73,
>
> Michel, ON7EH
>
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