[Boatanchors] [Bulk] Re: ARRL Band Plan

[pmarkavage at juno.com]

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 <lmpicard at rogers.com>
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