[Elecraft] 20 meters is dead all day

[Edward R Cole]

I'll take a chance the thread has not been moderated.

I built my first receiver in time for listening on 1958 to wide-open 
10m.  Guy's running 50w easily heard around the world.  Definitely 
never the same since.  Unfortunately 13wpm kept my off 10m though I 
passed the General written exam when I took my Tech license in 1959 
at age 15.  The good part of that was I got on 6m and 2m which led to 
years on VHF+.  I now can work the world by sending my signal half a 
million miles via the Moon; no propagation issues (unless a solar 
flare disturbs the ionosphere enough to attenuate my signal passage thru it).

Nearly impossible to check into the Elecraft SSB Net on Sunday's; 
only hear N6JW and that can be rough copy.  20m is mostly noise these 
days.  WWV comes thru on 15-MHz and very little heard on 
17-10m.  Ground wave on 600m is still reliable and some DX during 
winter when folks south of me can hear weak signals (static crashes 
kill 600m in summer).

Hoping Joe Tayor (K1JT) will have out a digital QSO based mode 
soon.  That should help use on HF/MW.

73, Ed - KL7UW
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