Topband: Stew Beef

[W7RH]

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

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