Times have changed but we don't have to go quietly or soon. Why don't we
pick a freq. to monitor when we are in the shack doing something else. It
could be an informal cw meeting place one band for day and another for
night. Call CQ TT for the gang.
I used to think that talking up cw and offering to meet the new upgrades or
inactive operators on the band for easy stress free QSO's would get at least
some interest going. So far after a few years nothing, several have made
schedules but very seldom do they actually show.
The Fists CW Club is dedicated to the CW preservation and has a lot of nice
people for members but it may be sort of like being on the bail gang of the
Titanic.
I am hoping that soon some people will be tired of computers and the
impersonality of it and find radio and the challenge once again.
In the mean time support "Know Code".
Dave, N0HS
-----Original Message-----
From: Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales <sales@tentec.com>
To: tentec@contesting.com <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: [TenTec] CW inactivity
>
>>That's been my experience, too. I was first licensed in the mid-60's
>>and the cw bands were very busy, especially at night. You didn't even
>>need a calibrated receiver to find the ham bands. 40 is still fairly
>>active during the day on weekends, but 80 cw is really dead except
>>for a few traffic nets, even at night.
>
>Over the last 18 years I have spent a lot of time ragchewing on 40
>meter CW in the 7.030 range where many of the QRQ CW gang
>are lurking. Back even about 10 years ago, I could get on 7.030
>+/- 5 kHz and call CQ at 35-40 WPM and get a response after a
>couple of tries any time of the day or night. I used to stealth
>operate in the middle of the night when I was in high school in
>the early and mid 1980's and could always raise someone.
>
>Nowadays, most of my operating is "prime time" weeknights - in
>the 8 pm to 10 pm Eastern window. Often I will call CQ for
>quite a while around 7.030 without receiving a response. Then
>try 20 or 80 meters and much the same thing will happen. After
>15 or 20 minutes of this I find myself drifting to SSB or the AM
>shortwave bands....I'm on the radio a lot these days, just not
>transmitting very much, it seems.
>
>Scott Robbins, W4PA
>
>
>
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