Topband: CQ WW Contest

[Roger Kennedy]

Hi Ken
 
Well this has been voiced before !
 
I appreciate that many stations are only interested in working new or rare
prefixes on 160m . . .
 
However, personally I get a big buzz out of EVERY QSO with a station on Top
Band over 2000 miles away, as it is an achievement . . . regardless of how
many times I may have worked that station before.
 
And I have never really got any real satisfaction working DX on the higher
bands, as even on 80m it's so much easier.
 
I can't help feeling - given the amount of effort it takes to have a decent
station for 160m, especially in terms of decent Antennas - that it seems
crazy to just come on the band once a month to work a DX-pedition, or for a
Contest !
 
However, I know there are many people who feel like you . . . but there are
also a lot of Top Band DX-ers who feel like ME. I guess I'm simply trying to
encourage THOSE people to come on the band more often.  Especially as it's
often those same people that complain about all the activity on FT8 and the
lack of DX CW activity !
 
73 Roger G3YRO
 
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From: Kenneth Grimm [mailto:grimm at sbc.edu] 
Sent: 29 January 2020 12:26
 
 Roger, 
While this is just my opinion, I look at 160 as a challenge.  If I want to
rag-chew or just rack up QSOs, I either go up to SSB or switch to 80 or 40
CW.  When I'm on 160, I'm looking for a new country or even better, a new
zone.  I have a feeling that this is how a good many 160 ops look at the
band.  It's not as though we don't want to talk to G3YRO, it's because we
are looking for JT5DX at the moment or 9M2AX or XV1X or whatever else we
need on the band.  There are lots of ears in use on 160 when we are in
darkness.  Keyers, not so much.

73,

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Ken - K4XL
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