I see no need to agree or disagree. No statement was made that SW DXing is dying or dead. I'm simply stating an observation from "my" QTH. I keep reception lists and compare one year to another and there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of stations period. You can do the same thing with Passport To World Band Radio. I've been DXing the tropical bands since 1965 and most of the stations are gone now.
73, Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF Retired Space & Atmospheric Weather Forecaster Plant City, FL, USA Grid Square EL87WX Lat & Long 27 58 33.6397 N 82 09 52.4052 W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Propagation eGroup: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/propagation PropNET Beacon Program: http://www.propnet.org HCDX Propagation Channel: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Propagation KN4LF Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5.htm KN4LF HF/MF Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm KN4LF Amateur & SWL Radio History: http://www.kn4lf.com/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Giella KN4LF To: a DXLD Yahoo eGroup ; a HCDX e-List Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:20 AM Subject: Tropical SW Bands Virtually Empty I've been doing allot of listening on the tropical bands the last two days both during the early morning and evening local time. What I've found is that compared to as recently as 2003 and 2002, 120 meters is empty, most of the African stations are now gone on 90 and 60 meters, same with Papua New Guinea and other Pacific Ocean stations. Even most of the Central/South American Stations are gone. Heck even all the Mexican stations on 49 meters during the day are gone also. I remember how back in the 1990's and 1980's the tropical bands were full of stations from all around the world, with every 3-5 kc full of co-channel stations with plenty of hets. I realize that many are gone due to transmitter failure, economic reasons and migration to FM BUT it's still a sad state of affairs. 73, Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF Retired Space & Atmospheric Weather Forecaster Plant City, FL, USA Grid Square EL87WX Lat & Long 27 58 33.6397 N 82 09 52.4052 W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Propagation eGroup: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/propagation PropNET Beacon Program: http://www.propnet.org HCDX Propagation Channel: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Propagation KN4LF Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5.htm KN4LF HF/MF Frequency Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm KN4LF Amateur & SWL Radio History: http://www.kn4lf.com/index.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified virus free by Grisoft AVG 6.0. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.802 / Virus Database: 545 - Release Date: 11/27/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified virus free by Grisoft AVG 6.0. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.802 / Virus Database: 545 - Release Date: 11/26/2004 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
