very low activity on CW I heard last night WT3A, very strong, and my skimmer often report Jon AA1K and few others
73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Libre de virus. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> El mié., 31 jul. 2019 a las 13:39, <daraym...@iowatelecom.net> escribió: > Interesting observations Jeff. I will remain on 160 CW as I have in years > past. I enjoy the visceral satisfaction that comes with pulling out the > weak signals and having direct, unencumbered interaction with the station > to > which I'm communicating. . .or trying. . .hi. CW is still great fun. > > 73. . . Dave, W0FLS > > -----Original Message----- > From: k1zm--- via Topband > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 7:20 AM > To: topband@contesting.com > Subject: Topband: Summer Update & a Surprise > > Hi Gang > > > It is mid summer here and E season on 6M has been fun to play with while > 160m is pretty S L O W as it usually is. > On these pages there has been alot of chatter regarding FT8 - (which > basically took over 6M DX'ing starting in July 2917 - all DX is now on > 50.313 FT8 - which is why I had to adopt this mode in order to continue > DX'ing on 6m). It was either do that or give up operating on 6M during E > season. > I do hope that CW continues to thrive on Topband - but this past season > there was TONS of DX on FT8 and in my opinion LESS DX on CW than in prior > years. It is quite possible to work in JA on 160m from here on FT8 with > 100w out - which would have been quite rare indeed on CW as I recall (I do > not think I ever worked JA with 100w from here - but who knows?) > Today as I write this - I am listening to 28.074Mhz on a totally DEAD 10m > band. If I tune the entire CW portion and the whole SSB portion, there is > NOTHING - repeat NOTHING there - no signals whatsoever to be found. > Yet on 28.074Mhz - I just worked a whole page of Europeans on FT8 - to my > almost total INCREDULITY!! > I am not sure how I feel about all of this - but one thing is SURE - the > DX > world has changed - and there is no looking back. > I love CW on Topband and used to love CW on 6m - but that no longer > xists -so I do hope the 6m migration to FT8 does not repeat itself on > Topband! > To all a good summer and CU on CW again starting in September. > 73 JEFF VY2ZM > > > . > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > -- 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector