[CW] FCC Releases 71 page NPRM

[scott mcmullen]

--- Donald Chester <k4kyv@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

don, that's an excellent question, and i agree with
your email completely. i don't think we cw ops can
complain about ssb ops wanting cw allocations opened
up to them that we're clearly not using.

when i was a novice, or perhaps just before i passed
the novice test (1975), i remember tuning my old
heathkit mohawk around the 80 meter gen class cw sub-
band on a saturday morning, and hearing one cw 
roundtable after another in progress. this type 
and style of cw activity seems to have nearly
completely vanished from amateur radio. 

is it just me, or does it seem to any of you also 
that there has been a significant -increase- in 
interest in cw contesting and dxing, and a 
significant -decrease- in casual cw operating, i.e.
making friends on the air who you qso with more or 
less regularly with using cw? that conversational cw
type of activity was what populated 80 meters during
the daytime 30 years ago; now i hear the 5bdxcc
chasers early in the morning at the bottom of the
band, but little else higher up.

scott nj0e


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Scott McMullen, NJ0E
http://www.geocities.com/scottamcmullen
scottamcmullen@yahoo.com
Dripping Springs, Texas


	
		
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