You are right Sean.
In the CQ DX CW contest I and a couple of other guys worked 130
countries in a part-time effort. Not that significant other than to say
it was run from the midwest (KS), often called the RF black hole of the
US, off of modest (by serious contest station standards) towers/antennas.
Of course it was not as easy as it would have been with a 150 SFI but
your point is correct - get a lot of guys on the radio and there is tons
of surprise propagation!
73/jeff/ac0c
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
www.ac0c.com
On 08-Dec-18 11:04 AM, Sean Waite wrote:
The bands are also not as dead as everyone believes. Sure, conditions
aren't great but anytime people believe those online propagation report
pictures and then don't get on the air, there is one less station to talk
to. It's a death spiral - no one gets on their radio, so there is no one to
talk to, so no one gets on the radio, so there is no talk to...
Right now with a not really great antenna I can hear a handful of US
stations working the 10m contest. Get on the air and conditions will
magically improve.
Sean WA1TE
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018, 11:09 Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd@charter.net> wrote:
Ugh. At least with these predictions, there is nowhere to go but up!
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of
donovanf@starpower.net
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2018 12:50 AM
To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] At least four more years of solar minimum?
NOAA updated its predictions for smoothed sunspot numbers and solar flux
through the end of 2022. As of last month, their predictions ended in
2019.
Their prediction shows a smoothed sunspot number of 10 for December 2018,
declining to 2 in July 2020 through January 2021, then 1 during February
2021 through January 2022, and 0 after that and through at least the end
of 2022.
www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
I hate predictions, especially about the future...
73
Frank
W3LPL
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