In a message dated 2/7/2007 5:25:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
w8car@buckeye-express.com writes:
It is frozen (solid) here in beauteous Ohio so I checked the bands at 1100
PM local before turning in and found 160 to be good shape. I wrked a total
of 34 stations (list of prefixes below) over the period of 0419Z to 0646 Z.
I wrked the 6W @0419 then cruised up and down the band. I called CQ near
the end of my time and worked a fair number of EU plus KH6, 8P and EU . Just
one of the best nights in a long while on 160!!! Many of the EU guys sounded
like locals and probably could have been copied on a coat hanger.
It appears to be absorption is fairly low. I've noticed the last few local
mornings here in NJ that 40 meters is still open fairly well to EU at 1200Z -
in fact EU QRM'ng VK on greyline propagation there.
Whats a bit disturbing to me is that based on current sunspot conditions, we
appear to have hit as low as it's going to go for this cycle (in fact we
likely past the minima). SO that would mean subsequent few years leading up to
the new cycle's rise won't be as "good" as this "minima" year. Yeccch. Im
just hoping to salvage this lousy season for me with a good Spring coming up.
The Fall was excellent here.
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