Or even DX on 15 at 2-3 o'clock in the morning. My little DX-40 worked a lot of DX in those days -- phone and CW -- and it rarely mattered what time of day it was.
I don't think conditions have been anywhere close to that since .... Grant NQ5T Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 22, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Kevin Cozens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 16-07-21 10:43 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: >> I was first licensed in 1955 and cycle 19 (the granddaddy of them all) was >> on the rise. >> Those were the times when you could work the world with 10 watts on 10 >> meters during the daytime hours. > > The bands would have been a lot quieter back in the 50's as there was neither > the population density nor the amount of technology to pollute the airwaves > with stray RF signals. > > -- > Cheers! > > Kevin. > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
