That's tougher to do these days. A lot of people are busy on the
internet or whatever and watching spots. I see this in county hunting,
SKCC and just about everywhere. During the week, I can tune the entire
CW portion of 20 meters and not hear a single station. A check on RBN
shows me hitting just about every skimmer in North America with a decent
signal, so I know I'm getting out and everything's working, but nobody
is calling CQ or in QSO. The conditions are there for stateside, but
nobody's on. Weekends light up if there is a contest. Signals will be
decent until the end of the contest, then the last one out turns off the
lights. Not a peep to be heard late Sunday afternoon. It's eerie.
I tune around 20m CW two or three times a day and call CQ if RBN shows
there's any hope of being heard somewhere, but during the week it can
get frustrating. That would be fine, but it's too damn hot to work on
projects in the garage instead.
Eric KE6US
On 7/21/2016 1:53 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Time was, we just turned on the receiver and tuned across the bands.
73, Ron AC7AC
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