I've been off the air for a few weeks, due to personal issues . . . but started coming back on 160m . . .
But it's SO frustrating . . . I'm often seeing my RBN reports from North American stations peaking 30 to 40 dB above the noise . . . yet I'm lucky to have 1 or 2 actual QSOs ! I'll hear hundreds of DX stations on the band calling a DX-pedition . . . but then they'll disappear again. Is that all you want to do, come on the band to just work ONE station?! I find that ridiculous . . . actually it makes me very sad for the future of the hobby. The same goes for contests . . . hundreds of stations on 160m . . . but then silence the rest of the time ! And all the people that complain that the only stations that seem to be on are using FT8 . . . well if you actually came on CW, there would be a lot more activity. I'm going to suggest what I suggested last winter . . . a Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night. It worked last year . . . a lot of North American stations actually came on the band (and that brought lots more Europeans on too) Saturday Night/Sunday Morning always used to be the main night for 160m DX contacts too . . . but again the band is very quiet these days (even when RBN shows there's good propagation) So I'll be on the band tonight from around 2330Z looking for any contacts . . . Roger G3YRO _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
