Hi Jeff
Your concerns are shared by a lot of us. I made the same observations
about 10M several times this summer. As you said, it the way things are.
I have 147 countries confirmed on 160M (all CW). I’d really like to get
to 160 confirmed (CW) on 160M before the proverbial well starts to run
dry…..
73 Mark K3MSB
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 8:20 AM k1zm--- via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
wrote:
> Hi Gang
>
>
> It is mid summer here and E season on 6M has been fun to play with while
> 160m is pretty S L O W as it usually is.
> On these pages there has been alot of chatter regarding FT8 - (which
> basically took over 6M DX'ing starting in July 2917 - all DX is now on
> 50.313 FT8 - which is why I had to adopt this mode in order to continue
> DX'ing on 6m). It was either do that or give up operating on 6M during E
> season.
> I do hope that CW continues to thrive on Topband - but this past season
> there was TONS of DX on FT8 and in my opinion LESS DX on CW than in prior
> years. It is quite possible to work in JA on 160m from here on FT8 with
> 100w out - which would have been quite rare indeed on CW as I recall (I do
> not think I ever worked JA with 100w from here - but who knows?)
> Today as I write this - I am listening to 28.074Mhz on a totally DEAD 10m
> band. If I tune the entire CW portion and the whole SSB portion, there is
> NOTHING - repeat NOTHING there - no signals whatsoever to be found.
> Yet on 28.074Mhz - I just worked a whole page of Europeans on FT8 - to my
> almost total INCREDULITY!!
> I am not sure how I feel about all of this - but one thing is SURE - the
> DX world has changed - and there is no looking back.
> I love CW on Topband and used to love CW on 6m - but that no longer
> exists -so I do hope the 6m migration to FT8 does not repeat itself on
> Topband!
> To all a good summer and CU on CW again starting in September.
> 73 JEFF VY2ZM
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