[CQ-Contest] contests and participation on air

[Joe]

It isn't jut southeast Asia.. The bands are dead here in the USA also. I 
remember when I first got licensed in 1975, you on any day would not 
have aqso without some qrm on one side or another of both even, and this 
was not just on the weekends either! any day the bands were full or closed,

Now you can tune across them and maybe find on a good day a dozen signals,

Terrible

Joe WB9SBD
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On 7/22/2013 7:01 AM, Hans Brakob wrote:
> Exactly!
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at 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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