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

[Garry Shapiro]

Alaska is definitely a very special case....

Garry

On 2/17/2015 7:52 PM, KL7RA wrote:
>> 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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