Topband: Promoting CW Activity.

[GEORGE WALLNER]

TopBand is certainly open.
 From E51D I worked EA8 last night shortly after my SS. Later, from about 
10:00 Z most NA signals were S6 to S7, including East Coast stations. Felt 
more like 80 m, but slower. Still, worked around 80 stations in 2 hours. It 
was a good night for TB.

George,
AA7JV



On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:12:46 +0100 "Roger Kennedy"  wrote:
>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
>
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