Also Gentlemen,
These modes are NOT mutually exclusive.
During the Fall/Winter/Spring I spend a lot of time on 160 and 80. My station
is located in the City of San Jose on a 1/4 acre lot. Much local noise so
while my signal is pretty decent I don’t hear very well.
I tune the band looking for stations I can hear above the local noise and then
I call CQ. I work the stations I can hear. Back and forth - tune - CQ - time.
Then I run off to FT8 to see if there is any action there. Back and forth.
I’m having a great time (while being “hard of hearing” can be very frustrating
(and sometimes depressing) listening to the Big Boys works stations I can’t
hear :-))
Both modes work for me. I much prefer CW but I’ll take what I can get!
YMMV!
Bob/AA6VB
Robert L. Chortek
> On Oct 9, 2020, at 9:03 AM, VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> Hans…
> I’m sorry but I agree with Bob K3UL, perhaps we should stop the whining about
> lack of CW and get on the band !
>
> If I look at my log for the 2 months since August, I have SM4DHF X13 QSOs,
> SM5EDX X5, SM2EKM X2, SM2LIY X2, SM7BIC X2.
> SM6CVX zero QSOs. I doesn't seem like everyone in Sweden has gone QRT ???
>
> Have you been QRV at all yet???
>
>
> steve VE6WZ
>
>> On Oct 9, 2020, at 2:27 AM, Hans Hjelmström <sm6cvx@hjelmstrom.se> wrote:
>>
>> SORRY Roger
>> FT 8 has killed Ham radio ,when you need your own skill and not trust
>> a computer to make your connection. I will NEVER use that
>> mode.Unfortunately MNI MNI Sweden Hams have almost gone QRT for
>> good,because of this FT-8 and lack of activity on ,,,,hearing modes.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Hans SM6CVX
>>
>>
>>>> 9 okt 2020 kl. 10:20 skrev Roger Kennedy <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>:
>>>
>>>
>>> It's such a shame that 160m Conditions for DX have been pretty good over the
>>> past week or two . . .
>>>
>>> Yet there are so few CW stations coming on the band !
>>>
>>> I hear lots of us Europeans putting out endless CQ DX calls . . . but often
>>> getting no replies, despite good RBN Reports confirming the band is open.
>>>
>>> Roger G3YRO
>>>
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