--- Walter Salmaniw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 09:06 AM 1/13/2008, you wrote:
> >Dennis,
> >
> >Back around 1979-80 when the solar cycle was peaked, Pacific Island
> >stations would be heard inland often. Back in the older DXWW-West &
> >IRCA Foreign logs, you would see fair number of reports inland. By
> early
> >reports on this next solar cycle, this may be a big one again, so
> those
> >Pacific stations may propagate inland better once again by
> 2010-2012.
> >
> >73,
> >
> >Patrick
> >
> >Patrick Martin
> >KAVT Reception Manager
>
>
> Patrick, the interesting thing to me is that only a few experts are
> predicting a big solar cycle, while most are still predicting an
> anemic cycle. Perhaps in another year or two we'll know
> better.........Walt
>
>
The big problem here is that trying to predict something like that
using 30-year-old receptions as a basis doesn't account for the other
dramatic changes which affect what we hear such as increased electrical
noise, more stations on with more power more of the time, etc. While
there may be some receptions like that in this cycle, there almost
surely won't be as many.
1969-71 were some pretty good EC TA DX years, but we'll never see that
again because of increased use of PSSA's, PSRA's, many more stations
with nighttime operations using them, and of course with TA's there are
a number of TA DX targets which have left MW entirely in that time.
I'm very happy to have been able to experience those years and have had
the kind of time to DX that I had then.
Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
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