Topband: K1N 5,399 q's on 160 M

[GeorgeWallner]

Jon,

I was one of the 160 m operators.

NA callers were thick during the evening hours when they 
were competing with EU, making for some difficult 
pile-ups, but after midnight (and EU sunrise), often there 
were very few NA callers.

George
AA7JV


On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:57:38 +0000
  jon jones <n0jk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I consider VP6DX to be one of the top all time 160 meter 
>DX operations. Despite being thousands of miles from 
>North America, they worked many small stations including 
>me (at the time had just moved so a random wire thrown 
>over the house and 100 watts).
> 
> K1N had a great signal on 160, well over S-9 most nights 
>- but seemed to be having difficulty hearing callers. 
>Despite a full size inverted L, I was not QSO 5,400...
> 
> - Jon N0JK
> 
>> IMHO the operations at 5A7A, K5D, K1N, R1MVW, HK0NA, 
>>TS7C,and TX5K did an
>> extremely
>> good job and were able to take advantage of the 
>>proximity to major
>> population areas.  They
>> had to have a good station and great operators, and had 
>>to be on the
>> ground long enough
>> to take make the large amount of Qs.
>>
>> But, and again IMHO, the operations at VP6DX, T32C, and 
>>ZL8X are
>> OUTSTANDING because
>> they had to overcome the big one;  DISTANCE, for nearly 
>>100% of their Qs.
>>
>> Now to separate those three just a bit.
>>
>> ZL8X did 4,206 Qs with a crew of 14 operators and 18 
>>days of operation.
>>
>> T32C did 4,985 Qs with a crew of 41 operators and 32 
>>days of operation.
>>
>> VP6DX did 6,671 Qs with a crew of 13 operators and 17 
>>days of operation.
>> 73 de Milt, N5IA
> 
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