Recordings of some recent signals on 160.  The CW recordings are best heard using headphones with Winamp's equalizer set for 310 Hz.  Note: I like a very low CW pitch of 270 Hz for very weak signal DX-ing, so you may have trouble hearing these recordings if your hearing doesn't go that low.  

TJ3FR 0300Z 17 OCT 2004 (57 kB)

TX9    1130Z 17 OCT 2004 (174 kB)  The only good opening we had! (#313 on 160)

HS72B 1155Z 03 DEC 2004 (189 kB)  QSO was via long path (SSW direction) for #314 on 160.

6O0CW 2330Z 10 FEB 2005 (137 kB)  Note extremely deep and short QSB.

UK8DAN 0217Z 28 FEB 2005 (322 kB)  "449 449 449" from 70W to a low dipole (#315 on 160).

FT5XO 0122Z 28 MAR 2005 (83 kB)  Very weak 449 underneath S9+20 QRN crashes (#316 on 160).  You will likely need to turn up your volume using headphones to hear anything due to my soundcard running from the fixed audio output.  Since I had Orion's AF Gain to the max and RF Gain at a low level to minimize the effects of huge static bursts, the fixed audio output to the soundcard is very low.  During the next 2 days, copy was much better due to significantly stronger signals and a break in the continuous thunderstorm cells, but I felt it useful to have this recording to show how difficult our copy was in W4 (and this insurance QSO was much better than my initial QSO on 22 March!)

Not Topband but interesting anyway.  Have you ever wondered what you sound like from the DX side in a contest?  Listen to this SSB recording by Zoli HA5PP (508 kB) near the peak of my 10 meter opening to Europe (30 OCT 2004). 

Also not Topband, but the 170.6 uW beacon from N2XE/B on 3545.5 at 1143z on 27 December (53 kB), sending the codeword "SPARTA".  And here is N2XE's 80 uW beacon sending the codeword "ROGER" at 0230z on 28 December.