Hi Jim,
Ah, have you turned on your radio lately? I know the SFI doesn't show it
but there was lots of CW activity on 15 meters rather late last night and
lots of activity on 10 meters today. I worked Australia 9:43 PM EDT, New
Zealand 9:47 PM EDT and Hawaii 10:57 PM EDT from the East coast. Today 10
meters has lots of signals on it in the WPX CW contest. Not great I know
but a sign of things to come. A couple of months ago any signals on 10
meters was non-existent.
73 Art W2NRA
"Keep to the Code!"
w2nra.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim W7RY" <w7ry@arrl.net>
> Let's be realistic here.
>
> The bands are not in great shape. It's summer time. Folks are not around
> the
> radio like they are in the winter time because of nice weather, summer
> travel and vacations, kid's baseball games etc. etc.... There are no
> major
> RTTY contests on the horizon.
>
> Have you, w5kdj, noticed the RTTY reflector postings are down too? Perhaps
> not.... I guess that blows the email theory out the window?
>
> Technology changes all the time. I guess television and the internet
> destroyed AM radio didn't it? NO. It just changed it.
>
> Sorry your discouraged w5kdj. Perhaps you need to do some antenna work to
> get ready for the upcoming contest season?
>
>
> 73
> Jim W7RY
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "w5kdj" <w5kdj@comcast.net>
> To: "Phil Sussman" <psussman@pactor.com>; "RTTY Contesting"
> <rtty@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY Black Hole??
>
>
>> It has vanished in the last 6 weeks, everyone is busy playing on the
>> computer and not on the radio which will eventually kill this hobby like
>> email killed phone patching.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Phil Sussman" <psussman@pactor.com>
>> To: "RTTY Contesting" <rtty@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:54 AM
>> Subject: [RTTY] RTTY Black Hole??
>>
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I don't know if it's just me or has RTTY vanished over the last
>>> week or two? I'm at my Richmond, VA QTH and the band segment of
>>> 14.060 - 14.090 has been quiet.
>>>
>>> The noise level has been S-8 to ten over S-9, but I have not
>>> heard a peep. I've called CQ on RTTY to no avail.
>>>
>>> Sunspots?? Lack thereof?? My QTH??
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> de Phil - N8PS
>>>
>>>
>>>
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