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

[Donald Chester]

>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

It's not that I have trouble finding a QSO.  There is usually some activity 
down between 3500 and 3560 or so, but the frequencies between about 3580 and 
3725 are often completely devoid of cw signals even under good band condx.  
You might catch a few stations in the novice band, and a handful of 
"digital" modes operating above 3600, but the space is very sparcely 
populated when there is no contest going on.

When I was first licensed back in 1959, during the hours of darkness the 
band stayed packed with signals from 3500 all way to the phone band, and it 
continued to be that way until maybe 15 years ago.

Don K4KYV