The bands are definitely not dead, even in the sun activity minimum. Why does it need a contest to bring them alive? Receiving many stations with 9+ on 15m and 10m bands. But only in contest. Why not call on those bands between contests? They do work, even now!
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Maybe somethings happen with the Hams, they do look at the spectrum, don’t see anything, and then they don’t call CQ, because there is no CQ ;)
Seems to be a vicious circle, which can only be interrupted by calling CQ.
Last updated on 2022:12:20 at 22:29 UTC