Topband: [160] No NA Activity

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I generally try to leave my radio listening to 160 FT8 at night when I 
go to bed.  I did decode some VK's last night.  Not much activity the 
last couple of days.

I have nothing for 630.  I just started playing with 60m chasing VP8PJ 
and they were super easy there.   There seem to be many many deaf 
stations on 60m or they just don't want to talk to me LOL!

W0MU

On 3/5/2020 1:22 PM, W0BTU wrote:
> I just started following the 630m and 2200m "#KHz" Slack Chat. It 
> looks to me like many CW folks have moved there. Some LF hams use CW 
> there almost exclusively, although there is a lot of narrowband 
> digital there (especially on 2200m).
>
> It was kindly pointed out to me there by N03M and KB5NJD that 630 
> meter antennas are not really all that different from 160. And LF is 
> kind of a new frontier, similar to what radio was in the early 20th 
> century (where if you wanted to get on, you had to build your own 
> radios). Having said that, some transverters and SDRs are now 
> available. But you'll have to built your own power amplifier.
>
> In a lot of ways, it's like amateur radio was decades ago when the 
> majority of hams actually had technical know-how and built their own 
> antennas, etc.
>
> This is /not/ to say that anyone here should up and move to LF. But 
> when nobody is on 160, why not give a listen there on your Beverages 
> or browse these websites?
>
> http://no3m.net/
> http://njdtechnologies.net/links/
> http://www.n1bug.com/lfmf/
>
> 73, Mike
> W0BTU
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 6:56 AM Roger Kennedy 
> <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk <mailto:roger at wessexproductions.co.uk>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>     Well I came on for a few hours last night . . .
>
>     Conditions were good, as my RBN reports with NA sites were between
>     20 and 35 dB over the noise.
>
>     But I only worked a handful of NA stations !  (there were several
>     other European and Russian stations on too)
>
>     It's a real shame there's so little CW activity . . . this Season
>     will be over soon !
>
>     Roger G3YRO
>
>
> -- 
> 73, Mike
> W0BTU
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