Bill,
What are the characteristics of signals on 6 meters that are propagated
by sporadic-E? How would I recognize that s-E is in effect?
Richard
K5BWV
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Bill W5WVO wrote:
Don Rasmussen wrote:
Are there more sporadic E openings on 6 meters closer
to the sunspot cycle maximum?
No. There has never been any credible evidence that the solar cycle
affects sporadic-E one way or the other. You can't prove a negative, but
there is certainly no observable correlation that has been shown to be
statistically significant.
How bad is a "poor" Summer for 6m CW & SSB, and on
average how often does that happen as compared to a
decent Summer of stateside DX on 6 meters?
Worst sporadic-E summer on 6m here in NM (recently) was probably the
summer of 2004 -- only 658 Qs, though I did miss the last three weeks of
the season due to moving. Best was the summer of 2006, by far (2204 Qs).
What an awesome year! Last summer was good in some places (especially
the east coast), so-so in others, like here -- 1262 Qs in 2007.
Unlike F2, there's no proven way of predicting when it's going to be a
great year for sporadic-E. It's great about as often as it is crummy --
in other words, a more or less normal distribution of badness/goodness. :-)
Bill W5WVO
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