Well a little fall is in the air after a scorching summer....so much so I have put my wire in the tree for the fall/winter operating season. The wire in the tree represents a hope for some 40-160 operating in the weeks and months to come....However : (
Read a good article today about what a bust cycle 24 has been...wow, band conditions have been so bad for being a year out from solar max just a bummer....today the solar number was 44...it was 13 on field day this year...remember we are one year out from max....
Old friend K7BUY and I were talking one day about working JA (Japan) stations on 6m daily in the 80's
well with some research the solar numbers back then, I think it was cycle 22 at the max was near 200...
wow... Well with all that I feel bad for many new hams that wanted so bad to work a pile of DX on 10m and it just has been thin at best...many days have been poor 20m, no 15-10m...just not good...
Well with that a solar cycle being 11 years so if all forecasts are true next max will be 2024...just hope to be around for another one...So I hope winter propagation is good and will make the best of it....good luck and remember 2013 solar max lets keep our fingers crossed that it will be a good year....73
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