Topband: WD8DSB & LU5OM 160 meter year long test complete

[Wes Stewart]

I often saw your spots, but the hours were just awful for me in AZ.  Too late to 
stay up late, too early to get up early.

I am reminded of some skeds that W7UBI (SK) and I ran on another part of the 
spectrum, 2-meters, on meteor scatter in 1978-1979 For over a year we did a 
half-hour skeds each Saturday and Sunday morning.  Over about a 900 mile path we 
made valid QSOs about 30% of the time on CW.

Still hope to QSO Manuel someday.

Wes  N7WS

On 8/2/2018 10:11 AM, Don Kirk wrote:
> For those of you that have been getting up early each morning to listen for
> LU5OM, just wanted to let you know that we have reached the end of our year
> long test.  Manuel (LU5OM) and I (WD8DSB) are pretty worn out getting up
> almost every morning (0845 UTC) for one year.  Manuel will still continue
> to be very active on 160 meters as he closes in on his DXCC, but our
> official schedule has ceased.
>
> As previously reported, our test turned out to be very interesting in that
> I was able to copy Manuel at least 95% of the days that I listened
> (including my summer months with lots of lightning crashes), with copy
> meaning I could copy his call sign and hear him say he was calling CQ.  Our
> path is almost a true North/South path (actually 160 degrees) at a distance
> of 4700 miles.  For the majority of our test Manuel used a top loaded
> vertical (currently 64 foot tall) and 500 watts. My RX situation is a small
> pennant (51.6% of full size) using one W7IUV preamp, an old Kenwood TS-180s
> with 500 Hz filter and a 200 Hz hi-per-mite active audio filter.
>
> As I said before, this (95% success rate) is something I would have never
> thought possible when we started our year long test.
>
> Just FYI and 73,
> Don wd8dsb (and Manuel LU5OM)
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