Topband: Good Conditions, Little Activity

Fri Oct 9 12:14:31 EDT 2020

Also Gentlemen,

These modes are NOT mutually exclusive.

During the Fall/Winter/Spring I spend a lot of time on 160 and 80.  My station is located in the City of San Jose on a 1/4 acre lot.  Much local noise so while my signal is pretty decent I don’t hear very well.  

I tune the band looking for stations I can hear above the local noise and then I call CQ.  I work the stations I can hear.  Back and forth - tune - CQ - time. 

Then I run off to FT8 to see if there is any action there.  Back and forth. 

I’m having a great time (while being “hard of hearing” can be very frustrating (and sometimes depressing) listening to the Big Boys works stations I can’t hear :-))

Both modes work for me.  I much prefer CW but I’ll take what I can get!

YMMV!

Bob/AA6VB 
Robert L. Chortek

> On Oct 9, 2020, at 9:03 AM, VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> Hans…
> I’m sorry but I agree with Bob K3UL, perhaps we should stop the whining about lack of CW and get on the band !
> 
> If I look at my log for the 2 months since August, I have SM4DHF X13  QSOs, SM5EDX X5, SM2EKM X2, SM2LIY X2, SM7BIC X2.
> SM6CVX zero QSOs.  I doesn't seem like everyone in Sweden has gone QRT ???
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> Have you been QRV at all yet???
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> steve VE6WZ
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>> On Oct 9, 2020, at 2:27 AM, Hans Hjelmström <sm6cvx at hjelmstrom.se> wrote:
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>> SORRY Roger
>> FT 8 has killed Ham radio ,when you need your own skill and not trust
>> a computer to make your connection.  I will NEVER use that mode.Unfortunately MNI MNI Sweden Hams have  almost gone QRT for good,because of this FT-8 and lack of activity on ,,,,hearing modes.
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>> Kind regards
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>> Hans SM6CVX
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>>>> 9 okt 2020 kl. 10:20 skrev Roger Kennedy <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk>:
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>>> It's such a shame that 160m Conditions for DX have been pretty good over the
>>> past week or two . . .
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>>> Yet there are so few CW stations coming on the band !
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>>> I hear lots of us Europeans putting out endless CQ DX calls . . . but often
>>> getting no replies, despite good RBN Reports confirming the band is open.
>>> 
>>> Roger G3YRO
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