Topband: Lack of NA Activity on CW

[Chortek, Robert L.]

I’ve been calling CQ almost every morning from the black hole of California.  

Propagation to EU from here has been very poor this year but the RBN shows I’m being heard in JA, Asia and Oceania but I rarely get a reply.  Granted, I don’t hear well (since I live in a subdivision in San Jose with lots of noise) but I know there are lots of JAs and other stations who put out signal I can easily hear. 

Seems like most CW ops have lost interest of late.  I’m about to pull the plug since I don’t see much point in getting up early to call CQ only to see how I’m doing on the RBN.  FT8 does not do it for me.

73,

Bob 
AA6VB 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 22, 2019, at 1:28 PM, Roger Kennedy <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Well as far as I'm concerned Mike, FT8 would just be my computer having a
> contact, not me personally . . . so it's not something I would ever be
> interested in.
> 
> But if that's the case, it's even more daft . . . as there's LOTS of people
> who complain about the lack of DX activity on CW these days.  But if more
> people came on, there would be more CW activity !
> 
> Roger G3YRO
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
>> Hi Roger
> 
>> Did you look up in the FT8 band?  That is where everyone is.
> 
>> Mike va3mw
> 
> 
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