2m: still not there!

I'm active, but where is everyone else?

 

Despite being past the solstice now, and despite 'assurances' that people are making an effort to be active on 2m, finding someone who actually is active is still proving as elusive as the transatlantic signal itself!

Here are all the active stations on 2m, for all modes, in the past day.  Hardly encouraging, is it?

What I do occasionally see is people in Newfoundland appearing on the active stations map, only to switch off again after a brief few minutes.  That type of operating really isn't going to turn up the goods.  Nor is thinking that only the tropo map is relevant to the Atlantic crossing.