I'd rephrase that to say "10M always sounds dead until a bunch of people start calling CQ, like in a contest."
I'm not an FOC member but this weekend was one of the FOC contests and there were signals galore coming through on 10M from them!
73 John K3TN
First off, the FOC is not a contest. It’s an activity day so both of you are wrong. It says it right on their web site.
Second, when I posted this thread there was nothing till a couple of very light DX stations came in and unfortunately they were not 10-10 members with numbers.
Third, there aren’t enough people calling CQ these days due to laziness, self esteem issues, lack of common sense, anti-social, anti pragmatic and mostly thanks to digital modes that feed and facilitate these particular traits we see in today’s society. I mean, why call CQ when FT8 is easy, don’t need an efficient antenna with gain and a computer program that allows you to walk away from the radio 8 hours out of the day while the program makes and collects QSO contacts for you? Well, we shouldn’t call them QSO’s cause there is zero QSO involved and you don’t need a human to call CQ.
Oh and by the way, I don’t get upset. I laugh at the silliness of today’s mind set.
One more thing, if an event or contest is in CW mode I would always expect more activity on CW than SSB. Problem is, you have less talent out there thanks to political correctness and feeding the less talented so they’ll be less activity even in that mode, BUT HEY. Thanks to FT8 you don’t need those things.
WINK WINK!