Topband: Lack of NA Activity on CW

[Victor Goncharsky]

This is not always the case. I have noticed long openings to Caribbean during last year 6m season with signal levels good enough for reliable CW QSOs but only FT8 portion of the band was alive.
Will see what will happen this year. Top band game is almost over with the last 3 new ones worked in April (but missed XR0) so 6m antenna is on its way to the tower this week.


>Вторник, 23 апреля 2019, 5:20 UTC от kolson at rcn.com:
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>Just as a note , most of the DX operations on 6 meters moved to FT8 because of the short, almost momentary  nature of many 6 meter DX openings. But w hen the band supports longer prop ag ation periods, you will still find at least some DX on SSB and CW. 
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>For the most part, HF DX openings are of longer duration and don't particul arly require FT8, especially as opposed to CW. Of course, some operators prefer FT8 and that's cool too. 
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>73 Kevin K3OX 
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>----- Original Message -----
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>From: "Andreas Junge" < andreas at n6nu.org > 
>To: "Roger Kennedy" < roger at wessexproductions.co.uk > 
>Cc:  topband at contesting.com
>Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 7:57:10 PM 
>Subject: Re: Topband: Lack of NA Activity on CW 
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>Roger, 
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>Is your statement that you don’t have enough opportunities to rag-chew on 160M? 
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>There is plenty of CW activity if/when there is a new DXCC entity to be had like VI9NI. Lots of OPs are calling within minutes of a juicy one showing up. I think there are more stations with 160M capability than before. 
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>They just don’t want to talk to the same people over and over again. 
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>It looks like that DXpeditions are making it more of an effort these days to get on 160M. 
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>The same CW->FT8 move has happened on 6M where almost all of the DX is now FT8. The cheese has moved. Go where the cheese is or starve. 
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>It take a new DXCC any mode any time and that’s just me. Same as AA6VB, I live in the Bay Area my lot size dictates what I can put up for 160M. To a degree FT8 is a necessity to make any progress. 
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>And yes, I was fortunate enough to work VI9NI on CW/160M - thanks to the team for showing up during the West Coast sunrises. 
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>To each their own. 
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>73, Andreas, N6NU 
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>> On Apr 22, 2019, at 1:28 PM, Roger Kennedy < roger at wessexproductions.co.uk > wrote: 
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>> 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. 
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>> 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 ! 
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>> Roger G3YRO 
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>>> Hi Roger 
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>>> Did you look up in the FT8 band?  That is where everyone is. 
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>>> Mike va3mw 
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73, Victor Goncharsky US5WE/K1WE (UW5W in VHF contests, ex UB5WE), P.E.
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