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[WA2ISE]

Never seen a doornail, but the bands seem dead as one...

[KC6RWI]

You are not the only one that feels that way, I check solar ham and there is something coming around the corner, I also noticed a few times this week no spots on the image of the sun, just a big orange ball.

[W7CXC]

M 5-7 flare at 19:00Z

[K6SDW]

I've been knockin'em out of the park on 30 meters FT8 after 2300 - 0300hrs West Coast.....I mean, the other side of the World.

I'd rather do CW but no one home on that mode anymore, except during contests.


GL

[KK2DOG]

The bands are never dead with FT8.
Even 6-meters has been open daily.

[KC0W]

I'd rather do CW but no one home on that mode anymore, except during contests.

 Unfortunately you are 100% correct.............Here is a snip of what I can generate on FT8 but when I go to my favorite mode (CW) I can hear crickets chirp. Amateur radio hasn't been the same since FT8 came along.




                                      Tom KH0/KC0W 
 

[WW5F]

Ya...  towards the end of 2020, I finally realized I was just logging the same call signs over and over again during the CW contests.  And in between contests, I wasn't hearing much of anything.  CW got me into ham radio.  So, I can't believe after 44 years, I quit CW at the beginning of this year.

Now I have over 3,000 call signs logged in FT8.  Something is always going on with FT8.  And it's 6 meter season now, too.