Topband: Lack of Activity

[daraymond at iowatelecom.net]

Roger. . .the Wednesday activity night is a good idea.  I will be on tonight 
CQing as I frequently do.  Sadly, some evenings that efforts yields zero 
QSOs.        73. . . Dave, W0FLS

-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Kennedy
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 2:17 PM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: Lack of Activity


I've been off the air for a few weeks, due to personal issues . . . but
started coming back on 160m . . .

But it's SO frustrating . . . I'm often seeing my RBN reports from North
American stations peaking 30 to 40 dB above the noise . . . yet I'm lucky to
have 1 or 2 actual QSOs !

I'll hear hundreds of DX stations on the band calling a DX-pedition . . .
but then they'll disappear again. Is that all you want to do, come on the
band to just work ONE station?!  I find that ridiculous . . . actually it
makes me very sad for the future of the hobby.

The same goes for contests . . . hundreds of stations on 160m . . . but then
silence the rest of the time !

And all the people that complain that the only stations that seem to be on
are using FT8 . . . well if you actually came on CW, there would be a lot
more activity.

I'm going to suggest what I suggested last winter . . . a Wednesday 160m DX
Activity Night.  It worked last year . . . a lot of North American stations
actually came on the band (and that brought lots more Europeans on too)

Saturday Night/Sunday Morning always used to be the main night for 160m DX
contacts too . . . but again the band is very quiet these days (even when
RBN shows there's good propagation)

So I'll be on the band tonight from around 2330Z looking for any contacts .
. .

Roger G3YRO

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