Yes the bands are crowded with cw stations.  

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 5:26 PM
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Subject: CW is Dead. Really!

Tell me again how dead the CW mode is and then tune 10 through 160 = meters
during CQ Worldwide CW.  Some stations art transmitting at 45 and = 50 words
per minute and it is wall to wall stations.  I put my Icom 7000 = on the
lowest setting for filtering last night, and slow tuned the 40 = meter band.
I put the tuning knob in the click mode and started at =
7.00001 and 02 and 03 and right up the band.  With my G5RV at 35 feet, I =
copied European and Russian and Africa and South America and stuff = coming
out of the Pacific on almost every second or third click or Hz as = their
signals fell into my narrowband CW filter.  DX was stacked right = on up the
whole CW band and some with big signals, too.

Phil.
K0NX