Some scattered thoughts.
This topic has been discussed before but found new life with the
planned addition of a Spring Stew Perry contest. As a die hard 160m fan
an additional minor contest or two have little or no effect in my
opinion on rag chew operations, JT65 or RTTY operation in the band.
Instead they tend to increase world wide interest in this crazy band.
Let's face it times have changed. Gone are the days of cw rag chews for
the most part with the Old man W1BB, Earl, K6SE or even Keith, W6DAO.
Equinox operation to be honest is at my limits of noise tolerance with
early Spring being better than Fall at least in North America.160m is
open somewhere anytime in darkness. Bored and need an alternative, get
up in the morning and SSB rag chew with the ranchers and farmers.
In my opinion there is very little difference between perhaps between
160m, 6m or 10m usage where 95% of the time the band is nothing but
noise. Operating is more fun than staring at a DX reflector waiting to
work a new one. Work them in a contest and you have accomplished
something. We don't need band allocations as there is 200kHz to operate.
That is what the "Gentleman's Band" is all about.
Bob, W7RH
--
W7RH DM35OS
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
_________________
Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
|