very low activity on CW
I heard last night WT3A, very strong, and my skimmer often report Jon AA1K
and few others
73,
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W
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El mié., 31 jul. 2019 a las 13:39, <daraymond@iowatelecom.net> escribió:
> Interesting observations Jeff. I will remain on 160 CW as I have in years
> past. I enjoy the visceral satisfaction that comes with pulling out the
> weak signals and having direct, unencumbered interaction with the station
> to
> which I'm communicating. . .or trying. . .hi. CW is still great fun.
>
> 73. . . Dave, W0FLS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k1zm--- via Topband
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 7:20 AM
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Topband: Summer Update & a Surprise
>
> Hi Gang
>
>
> It is mid summer here and E season on 6M has been fun to play with while
> 160m is pretty S L O W as it usually is.
> On these pages there has been alot of chatter regarding FT8 - (which
> basically took over 6M DX'ing starting in July 2917 - all DX is now on
> 50.313 FT8 - which is why I had to adopt this mode in order to continue
> DX'ing on 6m). It was either do that or give up operating on 6M during E
> season.
> I do hope that CW continues to thrive on Topband - but this past season
> there was TONS of DX on FT8 and in my opinion LESS DX on CW than in prior
> years. It is quite possible to work in JA on 160m from here on FT8 with
> 100w out - which would have been quite rare indeed on CW as I recall (I do
> not think I ever worked JA with 100w from here - but who knows?)
> Today as I write this - I am listening to 28.074Mhz on a totally DEAD 10m
> band. If I tune the entire CW portion and the whole SSB portion, there is
> NOTHING - repeat NOTHING there - no signals whatsoever to be found.
> Yet on 28.074Mhz - I just worked a whole page of Europeans on FT8 - to my
> almost total INCREDULITY!!
> I am not sure how I feel about all of this - but one thing is SURE - the
> DX
> world has changed - and there is no looking back.
> I love CW on Topband and used to love CW on 6m - but that no longer
> xists -so I do hope the 6m migration to FT8 does not repeat itself on
> Topband!
> To all a good summer and CU on CW again starting in September.
> 73 JEFF VY2ZM
>
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Jorge
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