[Elecraft] 160 meter contest also going on -- LOTS of activity

[Jim Brown]

On 12/3/2017 4:21 AM, Mike VE3YF wrote:
> Maybe just me, but I have yet to hear or see HI, again they elude me 
> on 160CW 

With 1500W and very good antennas, I worked one KH6, one VK, 3 RA0, 19 
JA, and nothing else anywhere in AS or OC. Thanks to contest scoring 
rules, participants can only work W/VE stations, and the band is open 
from these locations to W/VE for brief periods of mutual darkness, 
peaking around sunrise/sunset at either end. While CQing, I was spotted 
several times in ZL and VK, but only those responses. ARRL 160 is mainly 
for the east coast of the US and Canada to work EU and the Caribbean, 
and most of those stations QRT after EU sunrise. A few of the biggest 
ones stay around to try to work JA.

73, Jim K9YC