[CW] 80 meter activity

[Mike Manship]

At 11:51 PM 4/21/2004 +0000, Donald Chester wrote:
>The cw ops who complain about proposals to extend the phone band down lower 
>in the 80m. band have no one to blame but the ABSENT cw operators on this 
>band.  
>I remember only a decade or so, the "cw" band was full of activity from 3500 
>all the way to the Novice band, every night, winter and summer.  Even today, 
>the 40m. cw band  is holding its own despite SWBC and foreign SSB.  Where 
>has all the 80m activity gone?

I wonder if maybe there are more people living on smaller plots of land
which might not accomodate an 80 meter antenna ?

Mike W9OJ