I think it also has to do with the time of the year. And another
factor. On the weekends during the mornings I pick up a lot. My guess
it that people may be off from work and that is when they have time to
transmit.

I am a night person. But I make an effort to get up earlier on Sat and
Sun to pick up dx on 11m.

At one time I was into listening to the marine band on my scanner. But
I got board with it. And funny because I am not far from the Atlantic
Ocean. I think that the marine band is not for chat. I've only heard
coast guard transmissions and boats only transmitting when coming into
ports.

And for the AIR band, transmissions from ATC and pilots are usually to
fast and short. And I am not sure what part of the sky the aircraft is.
It could be near or far away. When the weather is bad, that when I
listen in.

SR



Al Klein wrote:

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:10:33 -0400, SR said:


This arternoon around 1900 utc I was picking up very good propagation on
11 meters in the 26.000's. It was filled with cq calls. Mexico and a
few countries in Westen Europe came in.


But now at 2300 utc the band is dead.


It's normally dead during darkness, so that's normal if you're
anywhere it's evening or night time.