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

[Garry Shapiro]

George is spot-on with his comments.

I logged K1N from W6 early in the expedition at 0857Z on 3 February for 
my first QSO with K1N. The absence of Euros made it a relatively easy QSO.

Garry, NI6T

On 2/17/2015 6:28 PM, GeorgeWallner wrote:
> 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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