Chris,
Why not learning the code, buying a tx with reasonable power and having fun in 
CW?
The code is same as spoken language and you can talk to other hams in real time!
But maybe you prefer sitting before your laptop...
I do crossband QSOs with hams  with no tx on mf but with serious interest in 
this band...
73, DF5QG

Christian Groeger

Chris <[email protected]> schrieb:

>Hi All,
>There have been questions lately about lack of activity, Steinar suggests 
>"Yes, lack of interest".
>I am not so sure that is the case.
>I agree with the comments about too many modes and would also add lack of 
>publicity as to where each mode resides on the LF bands. The casual listener, 
>who might well take an interest but is not on this reflector, is likely to 
>quickly lose enthusiasm.
>Also, whilst I am all for the spirit of experimentation, just maybe the 
>increased use of much lower frequencies has added to the problem by spreading 
>activity so thinly.
>Another BIG problem, often overlooked by people making comments about other's 
>lack of receive capability, the increasing noise/crud level from things like 
>TVs, LED lights etc.
>Then there's the CW operator who sends so fast you can't even read his 
>callsign (DF5QG - sorry!) and only appears to listen on another band, a band I 
>don't use.
>Wolf has been doing a great job with WSQ, several of us locally have been 
>testing his modified version which works well - on topband. I would suggest 
>this mode is potentially ideally suited to LF and gets us away from the 
>'beacon' modes so frequently criticised on here.
>I am frequently monitoring the 472kHz band - when LED lights permit - and look 
>forward to things settling down as the year progresses.
>Vy 73,
>Chris, G4AYT, Whitstable, Kent, JO01MI.