Wow, a contrarian view of the solar cycle from a NASA physicist, standing firm against the "growing buzz in lay and academic circles".
Or is it. Since the recent "clarification" of Administrator Michael D. Griffin's heretical view on global warming the number of NASA people who are willing to take a public position against any aspect of the global warming dogma are probably fewer than the number of sunspots in July. I don't think you willl be hearing any of them speculating about the possibility of another Maunder Minimum, however interesting and informative such speculation would be. Anyhow, there is a cure for poor band conditions: a new K3. Even if there are no signals I can switch the NR on and off. Amazing. I wish every rig had NR like the K3. I bet that would put a few more people on the bands. 73, Drew AF2Z On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:21:42 -0700, Ron AC7AC wrote: >This applies to all HF rigs ;-) > >While you're sitting around waiting for the next big solar cycle, you might >enjoy checking out this story from NASA about old Sol. This was passed onto >me by my buddy Mychael, AA3WF (the "toroidguy"): > >http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11jul_solarcycleupdate.htm?list96374 >8 > >I look at that spike back in the late 50's fondly. That was my first solar >cycle as a Ham. > >At least there's no sign we're going to experience another 70-year long >spotless "Maunder Minimum" > >Ron AC7AC > _______________________________________________ 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
