I gauge the conditions by the signal reports I receive from all the stations I work. It is not guess work. It is solid fact from what is occuring on the air. I use the same radio and the same antenna to glean these results. Conditions were better for the two nets today than they have been in some time. The sun threw a coronal mass ejection at us which caused aurorae. This makes the ionosphere better for propagation. Simple physics nothing magical. Kevin. KD5ONS
-----Original Message----- >From: G3YMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 14, 2008 2:28 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for January 13th & 14th, 2008 > > > > >Kevin Rock wrote: >> >> I read the sun was acting up and between nets read about aurora in >> Scandinavia. Thus our conditions seem to have improved through the action >> of the sun. Now that we are starting upward again that will occur more >> frequently. I am glad of that since working through the very bottom of >> the cycle was getting tiring! >> > >Last week's sunspot from the next cycle does indeed show the start of the >next cycle, but you won't see any real improvement until 2010 at the >earliest, maybe later. That was a single spot, later ones were still from >the last cycle. The sunspot number at the moment is zero, conditions >basically flat, yesterday's disturbance not caused by spots at all. Any >feeling that you had good conditions was just in the mind... > >73 Dave G3YMC > >-- >View this message in context: >http://www.nabble.com/Elecraft-CW-Net-Report-for-January-13th---14th%2C-2008-tp14796062p14796484.html >Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >_______________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________ 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
