On 10 Jul 2011 at 20:11, Kevin Rock wrote: > According to > SpaceWeather.com there are many spots on the sun but they are not > improving propagation. During the last few months I keep checking to > see if my antenna has fallen down.
Depends on what you class as 'many spots'. Most of them are minute specks and hardly visible to the eye. I use http://www.solarham.com/ which seems to give more accessible information than spaceweather. Note that the current sunspot number of 67 does NOT mean there are 67 spots. There are at present 27 spots in 4 groups - 4x10 + 27 = 67 - with most of them in one sprawling group 1247. The K index is shown as 3, which is not good, and the solar wind speed is increasing, another bad sign. I did have some fun in the IARU contest over the weekend, but not that much in the way of DX worked. Yes, there are times when I look outside to see if the antenna is still up... 73 Dave G3YMC http://www.davesergeant.com ______________________________________________________________ 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
