[VHFcontesting] VHFcontesting Digest, Vol 238, Issue 19

[Ben S]

CW is still alive on 6m and even 2m. I always call cq down there during the
contests and unless the band is otherwise dead-get contacts...should one
choose to look for it or initiate it, there really is life outside the FT8
herd.

Ben KB0ZOM

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022, 11:00 <vhfcontesting-request at contesting.com> wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:37:35 +0000
> From: "Mark, K5AM" <k5am at zianet.com>
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> Subject: [VHFcontesting] 6M CW
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> On 2022-10-22 08:40, Jim Brown wrote:
> > CW has been dead on 6M,  ... the last CW signal > I heard on 6M was 4
> years ago, ...
> > 73, Jim K9YC
>
> 2022 June 11-13 .. K5AM .. 131 CW QSOs  (SSB only 126, digital none)
>
> I hope Jim's remarks do not discourage anyone
> from tuning 50,080 to 50,100 during the
> next VHF contest.
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> 73,
>
> Mark, K5AM
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> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 23:55:01 +0000
> From: Ralph Matheny <mathenyr at marietta.edu>
> To: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] 6Meter CW dead??
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> I have more than 200 6M CW contacts in my
> log this summer.  I hear a lot more CW than I
> do SSB.
>
> Did not work much west of Colorado this
> season, but I did make a couple california
> Q's I think.
>
> So....perhaps the forest fires, mud slides,
> high taxes, rolling blackouts, and the ever
> possible earthquakes...have somehow
> prevented CW contacts with the West
> coast....
>
> de K8RYU
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> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 01:08:57 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Buddy Morgan <beamar at aol.com>
> To: "vhfcontesting at contesting.com" <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] 6Meter CW dead??
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> 6M CW activity is way down. There is still some activity, nowhere near the
> activity of ten years ago. Everybody assumes that FT8 killed it - and they
> are probably right. SSB activity went to near zero. But seems to be making
> a comeback. FT8 has become the dominant mode, on 6M. I do not see that
> changing, over the near term. FT8 just works too well.
> The real shame about FT8 is all the animosity it has generated.
>
> Buddy WB4OMG
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