Exactly right, Dave. Solar maxima are terrible for propagation on
topband. During solar minima, I've used FT8 to pick up EU countries that
noise on both ends of the QSO has made no longer workable on CW from my
QTH near San Francisco.
73, Jim K9YC
On 7/25/2025 9:52 AM, Ken WA8JXM wrote:
When everyone
(mostly) is rejoicing at the sunspot cycle peak and 20-10m are
running great, 160/80 is poor. We lowbanders want low sunspots!
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