FWIW guys and gals,
I can tell you the lack of activity is not just on CW and not just one band.
I've lately been getting up early enough to catch the morning European openings
on 20 SSB. Rarely do I get any one from 'across the pond' coming back to my CQ
DX over the north pole on SSB. That be
Just as a note , most of the DX operations on 6 meters moved to FT8 because of
the short, almost momentary nature of many 6 meter DX openings. But w hen the
band supports longer prop ag ation periods, you will still find at least some
DX on SSB and CW.
For the most part, HF DX openings are o
And I was pleased to be Al’s first USA. Very special QSO for me as well.
Congrats on now bagging two states!
Regards,
Mark, K1RX
> On Apr 22, 2019, at 8:37 PM, FZ Bruce wrote:
>
> Hi Al,
> Glad to make the contact with you. many are complaining about the band
> being dead, but I am very clo
Hi Al,
Glad to make the contact with you. many are complaining about the band
being dead, but I am very close to salt water and that helps a lot.
Happy to QSL
73
Bruce-k1fz
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Sent: Monday April 22 2019 8:21:
Roger,
Is your statement that you don’t have enough opportunities to rag-chew on 160M?
There is plenty of CW activity if/when there is a new DXCC entity to be had
like VI9NI. Lots of OPs are calling within minutes of a juicy one showing up. I
think there are more stations with 160M capability t
Hello Topbanders. . .
In my opinion the lack of activity centers on a few key issues:
1. There is no denying FT8 has siphoned off a lot of CW activity, easily
proven by a quick tune of the band any night of the week.
2. Summertime QRN in the northern hemisphere further diminishes CW (and
S
Hi Mike,
I respect that, but I’d guess the aging population of Topband Ops only explains
a small part of the lack of CW activity.
73,
Bob
AA6VB
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On Apr 22, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Mike Waters
mailto:mikew...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 3:50 PM Chortek, Robert L.
You maybe correct Roger.
I was just telling you where they all went. :)
I often hear .. no one on CW on 160M, but if you then look at the FT8
passband, it looks like 20M.
Now, with FT4 coming, we might have a 2nd group to look at.
Then, when a 160M CW contest shows up, the band is full of CW.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 3:50 PM Chortek, Robert L. <
robert.chor...@berliner.com> wrote:
> ... Seems like most CW ops have lost interest of late. I’m about to pull
> the plug ...
>
Some of us CW ops have not lost interest at all. Our advancing age is like
a brick wall sometimes.
When and if we
I’ve been calling CQ almost every morning from the black hole of California.
Propagation to EU from here has been very poor this year but the RBN shows I’m
being heard in JA, Asia and Oceania but I rarely get a reply. Granted, I don’t
hear well (since I live in a subdivision in San Jose with
Well as far as I'm concerned Mike, FT8 would just be my computer having a
contact, not me personally . . . so it's not something I would ever be
interested in.
But if that's the case, it's even more daft . . . as there's LOTS of people
who complain about the lack of DX activity on CW these days.
Hi Roger
Did you look up in the FT8 band? That is where everyone is.
Mike va3mw
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 4:09 PM Roger Kennedy
wrote:
> Apologies that I haven't been very active on Top Band the past couple of
> months . . .
>
> But I have a new YL, and so have been too busy with other things !
Apologies that I haven't been very active on Top Band the past couple of
months . . .
But I have a new YL, and so have been too busy with other things !
However . . . I did come on for a couple of hours both on Saturday and
Sunday nights . . . but despite the band being open for DX, only had a
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