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Here are a few recordings of topband (160M) qso's I made recently from my qth near Albany NY with 160M long Beverage receiving antennas and inverted L transmit antenna. Rig was Ten-Tec Orion from 2005-2007 and Elecraft K3 from 2008-present FT5XO 160M cw 30Mar05 0141Z, stereo diversity reception with SE Beverage-left NE Beverage-right 8Q7DV 160M cw 02Dec05 0059Z, NE Beverage KH6/N6KB 160M cw 04Dec05 1120Z ARRL160 contest, stereo diversity reception with NW Beverage-left SW Beverage-right TF4M 160M cw 08Dec05 0032Z stereo diversity reception with NE Beverage-left vertical-right KL7RA 160M cw 19Mar07 0958Z stereo diversity reception with NW Beverage-left vertical-right FK8CP 160M cw 04April07 1020Z, NW Beverage in very tough QRN The path from Albany NY to Japan is particularly difficult on topband due to auroral absorption. The path may be open only a few times per year and only for a few minutes and the signals are usually quite weak on both ends. I'm grateful to the Japanese hams who often struggle to make a successful qso in these tough circumstances. 6 JA Topband QSO's 6November2008 stereo diversity reception with tx vertical-left, NW Beverage-right; 12min edited recording with JA7NI, JA3FYC, JQ2VVH, JH0BBE, JA8ISU (100w !), and JR7VHZ calling me - amazing propagation but deep QSB and QRN 7 JA Topband QSO's CQ WW 160M 2008 stereo diversity reception with NW Beverage-left, SW Beverage-right; 8 min recording with JR7VHZ, JA8ISU, JF7DZA, JA3YBK, JA4LKB, JH2FXK, and JH4UYB - the first six answered my cq's - good propagation but lots of qrm from adjacent key clickers JH4UYB 160M cw 03Jan06 1223Z stereo diversity reception with NW Beverage-left vertical-right high QRN w Orion at 340hz and 59 taps dsp selectivity JH4UYB 160M cw 07Jan06 1201Z stereo diversity reception with NW Beverage-left vertical-right, fb condx JA5DQH 160M cw 07Jan06 1214Z stereo diversity reception with NW Beverage-left vertical-right, fb condx JH2FXK 160M cw 11Jan06 1200Z NW Beverage JA8ISU 160M cw 11Jan06 1202Z NW Beverage JA5DQH 160M cw 11Jan06 1203Z NW Beverage JA7NI 160M cw 11Jan06 1208Z NW Beverage JL8GFB 160M cw 11Jan06 1211Z NW Beverage JA0QNJ 160M cw 11Jan06 1216Z NW Beverage JA0QNJ 160M cw 15Jan06 1138Z NW Beverage JH4UYB 160M cw 15Jan06 1143Z NW Beverage JA5DQH 160M cw 15Jan06 1145Z NW Beverage JA8ISU 160M cw 15Jan06 1228Z NW Beverage 4 JA Topband QSO's 25Dec06 1147-1206Z stereo diversity NW Beverage-left vertical-right JA7NI, JR7VHZ, JH0BBE (tough copy), JA1HQT JA7NI 160M cw 19Mar07 1033Z, stereo diversity reception with NW Beverage-left SW Beverage-right Excerpts of 7 JA topband QSO's made 5Feb2005 1140-1208Z NW Beverage 0 - 13sec CQ de JA7NI 13 - 33sec N1EU de JA1HQT 33 - 48sec 73 de JH0BBE 48 - 104sec Aki JA5DQH 104 - 117sec tnx fb rprt NY de JH2FXK 117 - 121sec JRK-TU de JA1JRK (unfortunately no recording at all of JA0QNJ)