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

[Wes Stewart]

With 500W and an inverted-L with a too sparce On 12/3/2017 12:51 PM, Jim Brown 
wrote:
> 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