Guy, Good observations and I agree with you. CWops is growing, and overall CW contest activity seems to be up.
I would bring up another reason for declining JA participation in general. Their population as a nation is declining due to plummeting birth rates and by 2050 will drop to 92 million from the current 127 million http://www.ipss.go.jp/pp-newest/e/ppfj02/ppfj02.pdf . There are likely other reasons, but this could certainly be a factor. 73 Darrell AB2E ________________________________ From: Topband <topband-boun...@contesting.com> on behalf of Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av....@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2019 10:03 AM To: David Raymond Cc: TopBand List; Herbert Schoenbohm Subject: Re: Topband: 30 Ja's worked today on 160 "Nobody on CW" is probably answered better by few people listening and most not having implemented an automated way to pick up on CW CQ's. That's sort of built into the usual ham shack blend of FT8 and logging programs. In the contests, anyway, even RTTY tests and the recent RTTY roundup with FT8 admitted to the fray, I see no diminution of participation, the contests seem to be slowly growing. The CWOPS weekly hour-long CW contests keep growing, with member ID numbers well into the 2K range. It seems to have sharply caught on in the last few years. 73, Guy K2AV On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 9:32 AM <daraym...@iowatelecom.net> wrote: > > It's no wonder when I get on mornings with good conditions there are few, if > any, JA friends to work on CW. > > 73. . .Dave, W0FLS > > -----Original Message----- > From: Herbert Schoenbohm > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2019 6:49 AM > To: TopBand List > Subject: Topband: 30 Ja's worked today on 160 > > Using FT-8 with a split 1840/1908 I was able to work over 30 JA's via a > skewed SW path today. > > Amazing conditions and less polar absorption this direction. > > Herb, KV4FZ > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
