How would you even define "busy"? there's a lot of variables. Suppose there were a 1000 amateurs on the air between 3600 and 3900. Because I may not in their skip zone or conditions don't favor me with decent reception, I only hear 50 of them. I would say the band is not busy yet there are 950 of them out there on the air that I can't hear.
If you really want to detect "busy", "lots of use", "crowded conditions", etc. get on the air during a contest. Counting activeness is sort of like trying o count dust particles blowing through your back yard. Pete, wa2cwa On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:06:24 -0400 LM Picard <[email protected]> writes: > Just curious. Does anyone have any data on just how crowed the bands > > are? What fraction of the band allocations are "busy" at any > particular > time. > > The ranks of active hams seem to be thinning out. Or am I wrong? > > Saw an article somewhere that shows that the average age of licensed > > hams keeps rising. That is there are relatively few young people > getting licensed. The few young people interested in a technical > hobby > seem to be into computer gaming, overclocking, writing cell phone > apps etc. > > On 12/04/2015 5:33 PM, Bry Carling wrote: > > If you have an Extra yes CW US ALLOWED anywhere but quite a few > areas you will only have QSOs with other extras nowadays since > everyone else has lost some CW spectrum in recent years. > > > > If we are not vigilant they may well lose more. > > > > Best regards - Brian Carling > > AF4K Crystals Co. > > 117 Sterling Pine St. > > Sanford, FL 32773 > > > > Tel: +USA 321-262-5471 _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
