[Elecraft] 6M CW

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT), Ken McGuire wrote:

>I was frustrated at how slow the chats were on SSB (FM was even worse) -
>it seemed like they were wasting a perfectly good band opening ragchewing

Yep. Same here. Often, an opening on any given path may be there only long 
enough to exchange the grid and report. It's quite frustrating to wait to 
call a station that was S9, then S7, then S5, then S3, then fumes, while 
the time is filled with innanity. 

>When I turned down to the CW portion of the band, it almost sounded like
>a CW contest weekend.

Yes. I've gotten to the point that I spend most of my 6M efforts on CW, 
only tuning up to the SSB portion of the band when nothing is happening on 
CW. And thanks in part to the proliferation of K3s, there is a lot more CW 
activity than there was only 5 years ago.

73, Jim K9YC