Hey Scott!
Try about 5 or so watts, and get on 7.040. There are lots of us there, but
(sigh) I think we believe we are back using crystals because we don't move
around much.
Frank KG9H
Triton II, S/N 212
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales" <sales@tentec.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: [TenTec] CW inactivity
>
> >That's been my experience, too. I was first licensed in the mid-60's
> >and the cw bands were very busy, especially at night. You didn't even
> >need a calibrated receiver to find the ham bands. 40 is still fairly
> >active during the day on weekends, but 80 cw is really dead except
> >for a few traffic nets, even at night.
>
> Over the last 18 years I have spent a lot of time ragchewing on 40
> meter CW in the 7.030 range where many of the QRQ CW gang
> are lurking. Back even about 10 years ago, I could get on 7.030
> +/- 5 kHz and call CQ at 35-40 WPM and get a response after a
> couple of tries any time of the day or night. I used to stealth
> operate in the middle of the night when I was in high school in
> the early and mid 1980's and could always raise someone.
>
> Nowadays, most of my operating is "prime time" weeknights - in
> the 8 pm to 10 pm Eastern window. Often I will call CQ for
> quite a while around 7.030 without receiving a response. Then
> try 20 or 80 meters and much the same thing will happen. After
> 15 or 20 minutes of this I find myself drifting to SSB or the AM
> shortwave bands....I'm on the radio a lot these days, just not
> transmitting very much, it seems.
>
> Scott Robbins, W4PA
>
>
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