On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:47:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just leave the barefoot K2 monitoring the low end of 20M CW. > The propagation has just been amazing. Where I work into Europe almost > at will all day long. I am using a 2 ele Quad with a clear take off angle > over fresh water here. Which does help a great deal. But it still dosnt > explain the great prop without sun spots. Anyone have an ideas?
A lot of people thing you need sunspots to have good propagation. This is certainly true if you are talking about 10 meters. 20 meters is a band that seems to do okay without sunspots. As you go lower in frequency, certainly by the time you get to 40 meters, the bands actually seem to do better without them. On 160 meters, this is the "sunspot peak" from the perspective of openings from my QTH to Europe. During the years where there are lots of sunspots - you simply can't work Europe hardly ever. Last week, I worked RA4LW on seven consecutive nights. Tree N6TR [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
