[Elecraft] 20 meters is dead all day

[Jessie Oberreuter]

      At the Pacific Northwest QRP gathering a few weeks back, one of the 
presenters ran WSPRnet overnight on his K3.  I was amazed at the 
propagation!  Indeed, he used the live data in his presentation, and I was 
flabberghasted to see that a huge 6m opening had occured an hour ealier. 
I'm not particularly excited by point-and-click QSOs, but I am interested 
in using the same tools to generate opening alerts.

      Meanwhile, I had the 20m static on softly during my late night (12a - 
1a PDT) piano practices this week, and I heard a surprising amount of cw 
-- a nice reminder that 20m isn't just a night time band during Field Day 
:).

 	- kb7psg


On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Sid Frissell wrote:

> You "20 meters is dead all day" guys need to check out WSJT-X (JT-9 and 
> JT-65). At least here in MT 14076 is busy every day all day!  You can 
> find many US and VE stations plus a very good mix of DX. I have only 
> been on this mode since late in 2014 (been a ham since 1950) and I have 
> worked over 100 DX entities.  {I started over when I took up digital. 
> New ones are still popping up.  Plenty of QSO's.  No rag-chewing of 
> course !!!  Also, my DX spotter in DXLabd seems to keep rolling out 
> spots all day--many on 20, both SSB and cw.  Try 14076. I call it 
> "Mouse-click Radio" as thats all you have to do. At least you will hear 
> (see?) activity.
>
> 73, Sid.  NZ7M