Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
Makes me glad that I am building a 40m four square. Mark N1UK - Original Message - From: Dennis Kopecky To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Wednesday, 15 June, 2011 10:18 AM Subject: RE: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading Ugh, that's just more dipoles and verticals with little or no gain or directivity. But really, 40M was once again beautiful, now that its without the foreign broadcasters ! What's a kid on a city-lot to do ? 73, Dennis, W2IU Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:39:43 -0500 Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading From: w9sz.z...@gmail.com To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Tweak up those low band antennas! 73, Zack W9SZ On 6/15/11, Bill Hawkins bhw...@hughes.net wrote: I thought we just came out of that! Bill W5EC BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon. From Space.com reporting from the conference: Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years. The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated. Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
Tweak up those low band antennas! 73, Zack W9SZ On 6/15/11, Bill Hawkins bhw...@hughes.net wrote: I thought we just came out of that! Bill W5EC BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon. From Space.com reporting from the conference: Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years. The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated. Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
Now, why would you say that? Are you even remotely qualified, on either topic, to make such a definitive statement? I hardly think so. Dave W7AQK - Original Message - From: Barry w...@comcast.net To: w9sz.z...@gmail.com Cc: dx-chat dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading This prediction is up there with the global warming nuts - trying to use ~400 years of data to predict the behavior of something with a 6 billion year history. Barry W2UP On 6/15/2011 7:39 AM, Zack Widup wrote: Tweak up those low band antennas! 73, Zack W9SZ On 6/15/11, Bill Hawkinsbhw...@hughes.net wrote: I thought we just came out of that! Bill W5EC BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon. From Space.com reporting from the conference: Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years. The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated. Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- === Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17720) http://www.pctools.com/ === === Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17720) http://www.pctools.com/ === --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
RE: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
While I recognize that there are some very well equiped stations, as regards tweaking up those low band antennas, and I envy some of those who have been able to erect those 80M beams and the technical abilities that show up on 160M, the bulk of the people who I've found enjoying both local and dx qso's are using antennas simpler than beams, quads, and other very directional antennas: you don't see very many rhombics put up by us hams, and I especially admire ON4UN, John Devoldere's treatment of low band dxing. Sure I agree that one can put together a directional, phased vertical array, not all of us have the real estate to do it. So while I appreciate your thoughts, I have to go with what I've seen with many of my friends, that the statement I made is, for the most part, true. (And I presume, you have no problem with my statement regarding 40M w/o broadcast stations?). 73, Dennis, W2IU From: w7...@cox.net To: w...@comcast.net; w9sz.z...@gmail.com CC: dx-chat@njdxa.org Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:50:44 -0700 Now, why would you say that? Are you even remotely qualified, on either topic, to make such a definitive statement? I hardly think so. Dave W7AQK - Original Message - From: Barry w...@comcast.net To: w9sz.z...@gmail.com Cc: dx-chat dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading This prediction is up there with the global warming nuts - trying to use ~400 years of data to predict the behavior of something with a 6 billion year history. Barry W2UP On 6/15/2011 7:39 AM, Zack Widup wrote: Tweak up those low band antennas! 73, Zack W9SZ On 6/15/11, Bill Hawkinsbhw...@hughes.net wrote: I thought we just came out of that! Bill W5EC BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon. From Space.com reporting from the conference: Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years. The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated. Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- === Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17720) http://www.pctools.com/ === === Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17720) http://www.pctools.com/ === --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored
Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
Call me crazy but I liked it better when sunspots were sparse. You really appreciated when some of the higher bands opened up. When 15 opened up the bands went crazy! Ryan, N2RJ On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Zack Widup w9sz.z...@gmail.com wrote: Tweak up those low band antennas! 73, Zack W9SZ On 6/15/11, Bill Hawkins bhw...@hughes.net wrote: I thought we just came out of that! Bill W5EC BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon. From Space.com reporting from the conference: Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years. The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated. Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Ryan A. Jairam, --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
Thank you, Jim Barry W2UP On 6/15/2011 9:36 AM, James Nipper wrote: He is just saying that we frequently see nutty predictions based on non-science, with global warming being the biggest of the scams. Jim K4PYT -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
can we act like adults and keep this to DX rather than dismissive personal biases? - Original Message - From: Barry w...@comcast.net To: James Nipper ja...@jamesnipper.com Cc: w7...@cox.net; w9sz.z...@gmail.com; 'dx-chat' dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading Thank you, Jim Barry W2UP On 6/15/2011 9:36 AM, James Nipper wrote: He is just saying that we frequently see nutty predictions based on non-science, with global warming being the biggest of the scams. Jim K4PYT -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
That may well be Ryan, but a LITTLE propagation every now and then on the high bands is a good thing! (Especially the 2nd full weekend in December)Personally, I just want to complete 12 meter DXCC (about 30 confirms to go) before the band dies out completely again!73, ron w3wnOn 06/15/11, Ryan Jairamrjai...@gmail.com wrote:Call me crazy but I liked it better when sunspots were sparse. You really appreciated when some of the higher bands opened up. When 15 opened up the bands went crazy!Ryan, N2RJOn Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Zack Widup w9sz.z...@gmail.com wrote:Tweak up those low band antennas!73, Zack W9SZOn 6/15/11, Bill Hawkins bhw...@hughes.net wrote: I thought we just came out of that! Bill W5EC BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon. From Space.com reporting from the conference: Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years. The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated. Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message toimail...@njdxa.orgIn the message body put eitherunsubscribe dx-chatorsubscribe dx-chatThis is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org- Ryan A. Jairam,---To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message toimail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chator subscribe dx-chatThis is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org--- ---To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message toimail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chator subscribe dx-chatThis is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org---
Re: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
Well that's what I meant... a little propagation but I can't say I enjoy the bands much when it's easy to work everything all the time. Of course none of us have control over propagation, just our stations. Ryan, N2RJ On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN wn3...@verizon.netwrote: That may well be Ryan, but a LITTLE propagation every now and then on the high bands is a good thing! (Especially the 2nd full weekend in December) Personally, I just want to complete 12 meter DXCC (about 30 confirms to go) before the band dies out completely again! 73, ron w3wn On 06/15/11, Ryan Jairamrjai...@gmail.com wrote: Call me crazy but I liked it better when sunspots were sparse. You really appreciated when some of the higher bands opened up. When 15 opened up the bands went crazy! Ryan, N2RJ On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Zack Widup w9sz.z...@gmail.com wrote: Tweak up those low band antennas! 73, Zack W9SZ On 6/15/11, Bill Hawkins bhw...@hughes.net wrote: I thought we just came out of that! Bill W5EC BREAKING - major AAS solar announcement: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon. From Space.com reporting from the conference: Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years. The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated. Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots. --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Ryan A. Jairam, --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Ryan A. Jairam, --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
Remember one thing folks- if it were not for the solar minimums, Dxing would be equivalent to calling the s pacific, africa, asia, etc on your cell phone, perhaps even a bit less challenging. The most challenging and enjoyable dx memories I have occurred in low flux condition. 73 K1VSK --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: Re: [DX-CHAT] Sun's Spots Fading
The low bands will be GREAT! John K5MO --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
