Topband: Lack of Activity

[Dennis Egan]

I will also be on tonite.  Not sure if it will be HQ9X or W1UE/HR9, but
I’ll be on.  And I doubt I’ll be on as early as 2330z!

Dennis W1UE

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 14:25 Roger Kennedy <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> 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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