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Subject: Topband: solarwind and 160 prop
From: "Dr. Wolf Ostwald" <df2py@t-online.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:24:17 +0100
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hi reflectees !
As we all know, the effects of the solar wind are strongly determining 160m propagation. It seems that solely watching A and K indexes plus the SFI is not helping much in propagation predictions, at least not for 160. We all tried that and failed in it. Now is the critical factor whether the polarity of the arriving solar wind, developing the interplanetary mag field , fits the earth mag field or not. becuase if it does, the influence is by far greater than without it. Question is, where do i find that info ?? I think this might stir up some geophysicist - hopefully. Surely the information derived that way is not as easy to grasp as a simple number, but it may be the only way to further the cause.
73 de wolf  df2py

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