Topband: CQWW CW 160m

[kq2m at kq2m.com]

Hi Roger,

On 2024-11-27 11:44, Roger Kennedy wrote:
> Yes conditions weren't very good on 160m over the weekend.

Yes, except for a few very brief periods of time and you almost had to 
be on the band to notice them
before they quickly disappeared.

> Friday night was best for me, I popped on a couple of times during the 
> night
> and did manage about 10 NA QSOs.
> 
> However, I expected to hear more of the Big Guns from NA calling CQ, 
> but
> didn't !

There was no reason to be on 160 except if you were M/M or SB 160 and 
had to be there.  Or else very briefly if you were Multi-something or 
single op. all band and you had a good enough antenna to potentially run 
some stations.

Rates were much better on 80 even though cndx were mostly marginal there 
as well.  Most of the DX stations were on 10 - 20, or even 40 with far 
better signal strengths, higher rates and more mults to work.  That's 
where the US stations wanted to be as well especially when 20 was open 
even though it was dark.

> Only worked one additional NA station on Saturday night.
> 
> It seemed to me to be more a lack of activity than hopeless conditions.

Agreed.  Cndx were not good on 160 but that wasn't the reason not to be 
there.  It was that the other 5 bands were a better place to be except 
for the times when you could work some q's or mults on 160; which 
unfortunately becomes a largely self-fulfilling prophecy.

73

Bob, KQ2M

> Roger G3YRO
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