[Elecraft] 20 meters is dead all day

[James Bennett]

The band only “seems” dead. If you were to install WSJT-X and run a WSPR-2 session you would see that there IS propagation - it is just a lack of stations where you are listening for and/or looking for CW/SSB activity. 

I currently have my KX3 running WSPR-2 via a Raspberry Pi 3. On 20 meters, with my simple wire doublet, I am decoding quite a variety of stations as far east as Indiana & Louisiana, at mid-day, and none of them are running more than five watts.

Granted, WSPR-2 is weak signal software, but stations with QRO power and rotatable antennas ought to be able to hear each other and make QSOs - IF someone gets on and actually calls CQ instead of simply listening, hearing nothing, and walking away thinking the band is dead…

Just my two rubles…..

73, Jim / W6JHB
Folsom, CA