Exactly!
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@gmail.com> wrote:
> No real news to most of us but maybe more striking in signal-poor South
> East Asia----- contests GET HAMS ON THE AIR. Then, no contests equals lots
> of artificially dead bands.
> Many times in week days, I can tune ALL of the HF bands and hear less than
> ten ham-originated signals totally ! Think of it, most bands TOTALLY DEAD
> and at any time day or night even with high flux times. And it is not
> propagation's fault; there are just no hams on the air that would
> propagate to me near Bangkok.
> THEN comes a huge contest weekend and all the bands light up with hundreds
> of signals, maybe thousands (the thousands calling me in zone 26, for
> example). Twenty and fifteen have no blank spaces to slip in to start a CQ
> and a run!
> The fact is that without contests (and DX chasing) ham radio would appear
> to have disappeared if listening around. 12 meters with less than 25
> spots! Imagine !
> Contests and DX sell radios and antennas; get people improving their rigs;
> and get hams off the Internet and back on the air.
> Tell all this to the grumpy few rag chew groups too lazy to move to the
> WARC bands. But, get on the air, hams! Bands are open and waiting.
> 73
> Charly, HS0ZCW
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