[CW] Where are all the 80 meter CW ops?

[Donald Chester]

>Back when I was a Novice (1976), I could scare up
>80m Novice band QSOs during daylight (at least in
>winter), even in mid-afternoon.
>
>I can remember scanning across the 80m General/Extra
>CW segment with my Heathkit Mohawk on a Saturday
>morning and hearing wall-to-wall roundtables. This
>was in about 1975.
>
>These days, 80m CW activity is thin on the ground,
>even in winter.

Use it or lose it!

How can we justify reserving 50% of the band for cw and digital modes if the 
activity is not there?

Besides the amateur phone operators, I suspect there are non-amateur 
interests drooling over all those unused frequencies on 80m

Don K4KYV.