[CQ-Contest] contests and participation on air

[Luc Moreira]

>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!

This is a perfect example of: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".

73, Luc
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