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

[KL7RA]

> 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.

But not for all of North America. I also waited until Europe was shut
off but before the path to Asia started but no luck. K1N could get well 
above the noise for many hours but Alaska is in a bad spot on the planet
for these DXpeditions on topband. Payback is stuff in the Pacific. 

I didn't start hearing them at all until much later in the trip but had a few
days where I could copy them from their sunset to sunrise but that's no
surprise as we work CO2/KP4 every contest and they can be very
loud on Top here once we get dark soaked. 

Their best signal by far was right at their sunset one evening then faded 
away and I never heard them again that night. 

Finally at their sunrise last Friday early morning when they went QRT
they had a lot of USA and JA's calling. Not a few but a lot and for
sure for me not a relatively easy QSO.  

Sorry I never made it but if this band was easy I wouldn't do it. 

73 Rich KL7RA   
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Shapiro" <garry at ni6t.com>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: K1N 5,399 q's on 160 M


> 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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