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Title: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: SOCAL_RADIODUDE on January 27, 2023, 09:49:02 AM
Can this community comment on whether there's any 2M or beyond CW activity in your neck of the wood ? Curious about the rest of north america with a vested interest in SoCal... here even the repeater activity seems to have gotten slower since the panda monium, and fewer new rigs for that realm other than FM anyway. Is CW alive up there ?
Title: Re: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: AF5CC on January 27, 2023, 01:41:31 PM
There is CW activity on the satellites which use either 2m or 70cm as an uplink.  There is usually a little CW activity in contests as well, especially in the larger areas.

73 John AF5CC
Title: Re: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: KH2BR on February 19, 2023, 08:14:04 AM
I think I heard at one time that there is a cw net in socal but I can nolonger find it.
I would like to do 2m cw down here.
Title: Re: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: W1VT on February 19, 2023, 09:04:17 AM
Microwave stations in VHF and up contests often use CW as it often works better than voice over difficult paths.
A SSB/CW IF rig is typically used with a transverter.  CW works great for dish alignment. 

Zak W1VT
Title: Re: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: WA3SKN on February 28, 2023, 03:12:44 PM
There is CW on VHF and UHF, but you have to get off the local repeaters to find most of it.

-Mike.
Title: Re: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: KB2FCV on March 01, 2023, 09:30:06 PM
I've done 2m CW for VHF contests and a little bit of EME when I had a setup back in 2012. You might find some EME'ers do CW off the moon - although many/most are using digital. The all-mode satellites you may find some CW, as mentioned.
Title: Re: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: KD7RDZI2 on March 02, 2023, 12:36:30 PM
In contests, if you use much lower power than the calling station, you may try answering using CW. You increase the probability to get a long distsnce QRP QSO done.
Title: Re: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: N2HUN on March 18, 2023, 04:46:45 AM
Here in Cent'l NJ once in a blue moon you'll hear a beacon but my antenna is a vertical so the sigs are very weak.
Title: Re: CW activity on 2M or beyond... is there any ?
Post by: N8TGQ on March 18, 2023, 06:41:25 AM
 I was gonna use one of my pandemic checks to buy an FT-818 to do CW on VHF/UHF.

 I did some research locally and on the forms, and found very little activity or interest.

 So I bought a new bicycle instead.