[CW] Re: And now the other shoe drops...

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

I think Don was talking about 80 meters especially during the daytime.  Now 
a days - during the summer especially - 80 meters at night is like 80 meters 
was like during the day (activity wise) during the day 20 years ago.

At night 20 years ago, 80 was packed.

Now it isn't packed.  There are perhaps 15 frequencies being used actively.

A whole lot of "space" between QSOs on the CW band.

Of course, the CW bands of 40 and 80 are "shortened" by our Northern 
Neighbors who want to operate in a "SSB Preserve" not sullied by W-K-N 
callsigns.

73

David N1EA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony W. DePrato" <wa4jqs at mikrotec.com>
To: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv at hotmail.com>; <scottamcmullen at yahoo.com>; 
<markd at mfwi.org>; <wb8rcr at arrl.net>; <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:44 PM
Subject: RE: [CW] Re: And now the other shoe drops...



>
>Many of the "cw" frequencies lie idle even during prime hours for the
>band, especially on 80m.
>
>Use it or lose it!
>
>Don K4KYV
>snip

Don I find that strange here in south central ky i never had trouble
finding a qso , hear lots of guys calling cq lots of qso's going on and i
work a lot of dx on 80 meters . of course during the summer when static is
bad most of the guys go to 40 and 20 mts. maybe that is why you hear very
few on cw 80.
73 Tony



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