Hi,
I hope I won't be invited to leave (or pushed out). I am never going to
be a top gun on top band. Instead of a 100 acre antenna farm I have a
100 foot antenna farm. And the 100 feet is shared with a four bedroom
house and 2 car garage. And about a half mile from an airport runway. I
have still occasionally made some contacts on top band. I am not even on
top band at the moment but I have a radio that can get me there with a
little TLC and it is right next to the work bench NOW. It will fit in my
new, reduced size ham shack too:)
I am more interested in casual, rag chew QSOs but I would never refuse
to give contest stations some points or say hello to DX hams. Like some
of the others here I am not impressed by FT-8. I tried it. I do not
begrudge those hams who like it and use it. They do not get in my way
I'm happy enough to see them on the air. Yes..there are few enough
active hams. Let's keep everybody.
73,
Bill KU8H
On 2/17/19 12:55 PM, donovanf@starpower.net wrote:
Hi George,
Its apparent that times have changed. There's still a large amount
of topband CW activity, but today's operators are attracted to
contests and working DXpeditions. Casual mid-week CW
RTTY and SSB operating is drastically reduced on every band
but contest activity is still excellent.
73
Frank
W3LPL
----- Original Message -----
From: "GEORGE WALLNER" <aa7jv@atlanticbb.net>
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 5:05:04 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Lack of QSO's
The bands may be quiet at times, but last night from C6AGU I had contest
runs that were more like what you experience on 20 m: 180 - 200 QSO-s per
hour peaks. No lack of QSO-s here.
TKS and 73,
George,
AA7JV/C6AGU
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