I remember 1956 - 1958. Conditions have never been that way since. We are in the trough of a very long term solar super-cycle that had a peak in 1956.
In '56 every day in Columbus OH I could see test patterns on channel 2 from Miami FL. Oh, to have had a K3/KPA500 back then. 11 meters was a ham band on my friend's dad's 75A3. And 10 was jumping. 73, Guy K2AV On Friday, July 22, 2016, Grant Youngman <ghyoung...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or even DX on 15 at 2-3 o'clock in the morning. My little DX-40 worked a > lot of DX in those days -- phone and CW -- and it rarely mattered what time > of day it was. > > I don't think conditions have been anywhere close to that since .... > > Grant NQ5T > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jul 22, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Kevin Cozens <ke...@ve3syb.ca > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >> On 16-07-21 10:43 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > >> I was first licensed in 1955 and cycle 19 (the granddaddy of them all) > was > >> on the rise. > >> Those were the times when you could work the world with 10 watts on 10 > >> meters during the daytime hours. > > > > The bands would have been a lot quieter back in the 50's as there was > neither the population density nor the amount of technology to pollute the > airwaves with stray RF signals. > > > > -- > > Cheers! > > > > Kevin. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net <javascript:;> > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k2av....@gmail.com <javascript:;> > -- Sent via Gmail Mobile on my iPhone ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
