At the beginning of SKN 2022, I listened carefully to hear activity on the bands. The real action was on 80 meters between 3525 and 3600 kHz. Lots of slow key sending in a great variety of voices. 7025 to about 7065 kHz was oddly pretty quiet with just a handful of QSOs. 7100 to 7125 kHz was silent. 

The next morning and throughout the day, activity picked up on 40 meter SKN CW. I heard pure chaos from time to time. Open carrier tune-ups would appear out of nowhere. Crazy scratchy signals and whoop-whoops of notes being sent. A crusty intermittent scratchy squeal came up from time to time. Obviously, lots of dust and corrosion was being cleaned off live and on-the-air! I heard a warbly digital mode pick up from time to time around 7057 kHz sounding something like FT8. 80m activity was alive and well. 20m CW seemed forgotten. Has SKN become an exclusively low band event? In any case, a great time was had by all! - Karl Zuk  N2KZ