[CQ-Contest] need thoughts on how to cope with era of no sunspots

[Huff David J]

Maybe this is why we should start focusing on killing noise.   During minimums when the signal is harder, decreasing the background noise becomes more important.  According to sources on other email lists, the FCC has received very few responses to the inquiry below.
David 
W0IM

Comment Deadline: August 11, 2016
The FCC's Technological Advisory Council (TAC), an advisory group to the FCC operating under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, is investigating changes and trends to the radio spectrum noise floor to determine if there is an increasing noise problem, and if so, the scope and quantitative evidence of such problem(s), and how a noise study should be performed. In this public notice, the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) announces the TAC's public inquiry, seeking comments and answers to questions below for the TAC about radio spectrum noise.
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0615/DA-16-676A1.pdf