[CW] 80 meter activity

[k0ng@inebraska.com]

Hey Mike: Real hams can really get on the air on any band they choose.
Example: Mobil ops only need a plot the size of the mobil. When I was in the
air force with no permanent ground, one ft of real estate was big enough to
drive in my ground rod and erect my vertical. I worked hundreds that way.
You have to want to get on!!!

73 de Charlie,  K0NG  ..



Quoting Mike Manship <mjmanship@iquest.net>:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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