[CW] cw future

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 07:41:40 -0400

40 meters should be available all day long, unlike 20 which DOES close down due to props.   It just that 40 meters isnt a very long band for daytime use, and if you live outside a heavily populated area (say 500 to 600 miles, you wont hear much in the daytime.  Over the decades I have been on the air (almost 4) I have never seen 40 completely dead, but pretty sparce pickins midday in places like ET3 SV0 and even YV5.  Here in Virginia, I usually find a few in the daytime.  Well, I have never seen it dead, unless there is a SID (sudden ionaspheric disturbance) on, and then all the bands can be so dead that you think your antennas are gone. Luckly that doesnt happen often.  

"n3drk" <[email protected]> wrote:

>>
>> Today, I often hear no CW activity at all on 40 during the day while I am
>on
>> vacation during the summer. �I can call CQ till I am blue in the face with
>> no reply, despite running QRO.
>
>The propagation conditions have been bad all around. I always turn on 40
>meters and listen to eCars and by noon i very seldom can hear the net or
>anyone else on the band. If you want a cw qso on 40 meters then get on
>around 8 in the evening and you will have as many qsos with different
>stations on cw as you like. The same holds true for 30 meters. If you prefer
>to operate in the daytime i would suggest 20 meters cw.
>
>Sounds like you need to brush up on your propagation skills. I would suggest
>the RSGB. They have many good books on the ins and outs of propagation. I
>would suggest anything written by G3YWX, Ian Poole. Read his books and then
>you will know what bands are open during the daytime.
>
>john
>
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