Many moons ago (almost 13 years to be exactly), I replied to an item on eHam.Net, “Why is 30 Meters Ignored?” I wrote:
I’m a CW guy, and while there’s often a good amount of CW activity on 30m, a lot of times it’s as quiet as a mouse. I almost never hear digital signals, though, and like K0RGR I wonder why that is. As he points out, it’s a great band for both DX and domestic QSOs.
At one point, I was thinking about starting a 30-30 club, similar to the 10-10 Club to stimulate some activity on 30m. Whatsa, OMs?
Well, today, I received an email from Lou, VK5EEE. He writes:
I hope this finds you well and still a fan of 30m. I had similar ideas and recently started 30cw.net — I hope you will join in.
Well, I did just sign up and subscribed to the site’s email list. Please consider doing so as well if you work 30m.
By the way, VK5EEE, is also a CW columnist. You can read some of his columns, CW Today, by going to http://www.vkcw.net/cwtoday.
Dave New, N8SBE says
Very few folks put up a resonant antenna for 10 MHz, but a ZS6BKW ladder-line fed doublet works just peachy. I feed it with 75 feet of coax as suggested, and use the tuner in my K3. I use it for 80, 60, 40, and 30 meters, and my resonant (no tuner required) 2 element quad for 20, 17, 15, 12, 10, and 6 meters.
I recently set up a WSPR station on 30M, specifically to participate in the solar eclipse science experiments. There is actually a lot of digital stuff going on there. I hear PSK31, JT65, and WSPR stations all the time.
And, yes, there is also some CW activity. I can see it on my P3 waterfall display.
If you go to wsprnet.org and check out the activity listings, you will see that 30M is only 2nd behind 40M and 20M, which tend to be tied most days.