Topband: Promoting CW Activity.

[Roger Kennedy]

There is an email circulating around Top Band DXers, asking us to try and
encourage more CW activity . . . so I said I would post on here (as this is
something I have always tried to do).

The problem is that if nobody comes on the band and puts out a call, many
people presume that there is no Propagation. This is made worse if all you
do is look at the DX Cluster, or look at your Waterfall Display.

I also know that some people only ever come on the band to work some rare
Prefix or DX-pedition . . . but that is such a waste of a decent 160m setup!

However, there are many of us that get a buzz out of working ANY DX (no
matter how often we may have worked that station before) . . . and DX on
160m is really anything over 3,000 miles away.

Top Band is certainly now open for DX most nights, certainly for those of us
in the Northern Hemisphere . . . there 's just so little activity (it gets
boring just looking at your signal reports on RBN!)

So come on guys . . . a lot of you put a lot of trouble into having decent
Tx and Rx aerials for Top Band . . . what's the point in all that effort if
you never come on the band ?!

73 Roger G3YRO