Topband: Lack of NA Activity on CW

[Michael Walker]

Hi Roger

Did you look up in the FT8 band?  That is where everyone is.

Mike va3mw

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 4:09 PM Roger Kennedy <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk>
wrote:

> Apologies that I haven't been very active on Top Band the past couple of
> months . . .
>
> But I have a new YL, and so have been too busy with other things !
>
> However . . . I did come on for a couple of hours both on Saturday and
> Sunday nights . . . but despite the band being open for DX, only had a
> couple of QSOs !
>
> Where is everybody?!    I know that some of you are farmers, so have taken
> down your antennas . . . but surely that's only a small percentage of NA
> DX-ers?
>
> It saddens me greatly that you hear hundreds of stations come on 160m for
> hours, calling a station on some DX-pedition . . . but the rest of the time
> there's no activity! (is that all the hobby has come to?)
>
> Roger G3YRO
>
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