Topband: QRP on 160?

[Russ Tobolic]

 Jeff,
I haven't been on topband in a few years since my antenna went down in an ice storm.  I was always active QRP in the big Stew Perry contests back 8-20 years ago but then I got old and couldn't stay awake all night and together with some health problems for both my wife and me I haven't had the gumption to get the antenna back up. It is very possible to work some good DX with only 5 watts but you have to have a decent antenna.  I had a 65"  "T" vertical with top loading wires and 60+ ground wires from 60' to 120' long.  If I could hear them on my K9AY loop I could work them.  I could regularly work most of the conus but EU was always a bust from this DX BLACK hole in Michigan.  However, I went through some of my old Stew Perry logs and the best DX with 5 watts was CE4/K7CA in 2012  and KH7Y and KH6LC in 2013.  Of course, sunspots were a different thing 10 years ago.
Good luck, and keep working on on good antennas.  
73,Russ N3CO
    On Monday, July 1, 2024 at 01:59:13 PM EDT, Radio KH6O <radio.kh6o at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Is anyone regularly using say, 25W or less on 160?

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73,
Jeff KH6O / 6
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