Topband: 160 skip distance

[Brian Campbell]

Hi Jerry and group,

I was one of those stations Jerry. I worked you at 1712z and 1717z on 2008-01-05. I was running 100 watts and the distance was 1200km. We gave each other 549 reports IIRC ( from my log ).

I was on for about 7 days at or just after local noon here doing tests and I worked about 14 stations ranging from 200 to 1200 km out.

However my best "DX" was W8JI at 1270 km who gave me a 579 at 100 watts. I then went to 5 watts and he gave me a 479(!) But then again it was W8JI...

So yes there IS prop on 160 even at high noon - at least out to 1000km or so. But like you said it helps if people are QRV. I self spotted at the time to let everyone know which definitely helped.

73,
Brian
VE3MGY



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From: Topband <topband-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of K4SAV <RadioXX at charter.net>
Sent: September 17, 2019 9:14:49 AM
To: topband at contesting.com <topband at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: 160 skip distance

A few years back guys on this forum decided to see what could be worked
at noon time.  There were a few stations on at that time and I worked
stations up to 600 miles.  That will vary with band conditions.  It
doesn't work well if there are no stations on the band.

You can observe the same thing during a major contest when there are
stations working the band during the day (usually multi-op class stations).

Jerry, K4SAV
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