[CW] 80 meter activity

[ah7i@atl.org]

If you buy into the premise, that's a good question. 80m seems pretty busy
to me. It will get busier as sunspots decline. Has done this the last two
cycles. With sunspots comes QRP and new QRP gear and clubs and guys
operating in the woods with portable stuff. Then as they fade so does QRP
interest and interest on the higher bands and 80 gets busy again. That's
been my experience in some 35 years of listening. (I don't transmit much
as I go for DX).

-Bob


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Mike Manship wrote:

> 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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