Topband: Any Chinese stations with Big Sigs operating on 160?

[Michael Tope]

When we tried operating in 160 meter contests from W6UE in Pasadena, it 
was amusing to see the packet spots complaining about how deaf we were. 
We were running a full size flat-top dipole at 90 feet. It apparently 
worked pretty well as a transmit antenna. Using the 80 meter 
inverted-vee for receive that was off the same 90 foot apex at more or 
less a right angle to the dipole actually improved things significantly 
(e.g. from really deaf to pretty deaf).

Here is an iPhone video of a Q5 "speaker copy" B7P calling CQ on 160 
meters during the 2022 CQ WW SSB contest. I tried calling them (off the 
video) with no luck whatsoever. I don't think they worked any North 
Americans. By contrast, during the 2024 ARRL SSB contest, JA3YBK who was 
also Q5 speaker copy came right back to me on the first call (I don't 
think I have a recording of that QSO):

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kd2euhx7x5a5dd5iatm7c/B7P-2022-CQ-WW-SSB-160M.mp4?rlkey=xd6qpj5d3ikg2u39fvotheqhz&dl=0

73, Mike W4EF...............

On 4/2/2024 3:12 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 4/2/2024 2:45 PM, David Raymond wrote:
>> Yes, the Chinese have really discovered ham radio in the last decade.
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> And beginning 6-8 years ago, they figured out that they had to set up 
> stations where the noise was low enough that they could hear stations 
> calling them. When they first appeared, the noise made them deaf. No 
> different from here in NA.
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> 73, Jim K9YC
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