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

[Mike Hyder -N4NT-]

How to destroy Amateur Radio:

Give the hams additional frequency bands.

That way they will be so spread out they'll never find one another, will 
become discouraged and quit the hobby.

73, Mike N4NT -- about to crank up on 3,530± kc.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv at hotmail.com>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Where are all the 80 meter CW ops?




>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.