No more "hard sky" like 1956 in my lifetime if that actually plays out. In 1956 watched my friend's ham dad work the west coast from Ohio, on 10 meters AM, 5+9 both ways, with a Johnson Ranger 35 watts AM literally into a wet salty spaghetti noodle. REALLY impressive and fun to a seventh grader that eventually turned into K2AV. We also did window screens, bed frames. 11 meters was an infrequently used ham band.
Been waiting for a 1956 repeat on the propagation. If we got that, KX3 and a wet noodle about all one would need. Sigh. 73, Guy On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Nate Bargmann <[email protected]> wrote: > * On 2011 16 Jun 11:42 -0500, Randy Cook wrote: >> A short, but interesting article on solar activity in 'The Economist' >> magazine's website - article number 18833483, titled 'Sun Down'. >> >> Researchers believe we are heading for an extended solar minimum is the bad >> news. I do not know enough about the subject to have an opinion, but the >> article is well written. > > If it's so, then we're in for a long period of time where DX will be > found on the lower bands with infrequent, if any, openings beyond Es on > 10m. Reliable DX will require large arrays on 15 and 20m and power. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
