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

[Charlie Cunningham]

True, George1

Those were excellent times for 160, 80 and 40m and worked well for me!
There's a lot to be said for keeping an eye on the daylight map and "being
where the competition isn''t! My 160 antenna has been down for a few  years,
but I had a very easy 160 QSO with K1N using the remnant of my 80m GP with
only one radial! 

Great job! Thanks!

73.
Charlie, K4OTV

-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
GeorgeWallner
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:28 PM
To: jon jones; topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: K1N 5,399 q's on 160 M

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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