Well, science provides predictions and suggests outcomes but I'm still a
hopeless romantic who tunes the bands in spite of the numbers. Tonight
I found a completely dead 20M band at 0220Z except for a single CW QSO
in progress between WB6UIA (QRZ says Wyoming) and XE2HOE in Baja
California (La Paz). When they were finished, I gave XE2HOE a call and
got a 579. He was a steady S9 and the guy in Wyoming was S6.
I live in NY, my antenna is a 67' doublet in my attic and my rig is a
KX2 and it was running at 5 watts (I'm 100% CW and QRP).
Afterward, I tuned the band again but heard nothing. Guess everyone
read the prop stats and turned off their radios....
73, Stan WB2LQF
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 09:35 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
There have been a string of M-class flares for the last 30 hours or
so. Initial ones were in the M.8-M.9 range, recent ones somewhat
smaller. A was 8, Kp was 3 earlier this afternoon which wouldn't
normally suggest terrible conditions, but I guess if the ionization is
already very weak, any disturbance can have a large effect.
73,
Fred K6DGW> - Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org
On 7/24/2016 6:28 PM, Kurt Cramer wrote:
Today was the most difficult Elacraft SSB net I have ever seen. Two
nets were running at the same time.. One on the East coast, the other
on the west coast! They couldn’t hear each other. About half past the
hour I started hearing Eric in Chicago here in Arizona. I guess there
were a couple of solar flares.
73 Kurt W7QHD
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